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| Discipline | History |
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| Language | English |
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| Publication details | |
| History | 1952–present |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press on behalf of the Past and Present Society (United Kingdom) |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 2.188 | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Past Present |
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| ISSN | 0031-2746 (print) 1477-464X (web) |
| LCCN | 65077388 |
| JSTOR | 00312746 |
| OCLC no. | 265436895 |
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Past & Present is a British historicalacademic journal, which has been a leading force in the development ofsocial history. Founded in 1952, the journal is published four times a year byOxford University Press on behalf of the Past and Present Society, a British historical membership association andregistered charity.[1] The society also publishes a book series (Past and Present Publications), sponsors occasional conferences, and appointspostdoctoral fellows.
The current chair of the editorial board is Joanna Innes, the Winifred Holtby Fellow and Tutor in Modern History atSomerville College,University of Oxford.
After the end of the Second World War, an emerging subfield ofsocial history gradually became popular in history departments.[2]
Past & Present thus emerged in 1952 as an alternative to mainstream political history journals.[3] It was founded by a combination ofMarxist and non-Marxist historians, includingJohn Morris. The Marxist historians included members of theCommunist Party Historians Group, includingE. P. Thompson,Christopher Hill,Eric Hobsbawm,Raphael Samuel,Rodney Hilton, andDona Torr.Gordon Childe was a founder member of the board.[4]The journal previously had the subtitledA Journal of Scientific History.[5] These figures often advocatedHistory from Below in explaining the history of class, labour, and social relations.[6]
Morris was the editor from 1952 until 1960 and remained as chairman of the editorial board until 1972.[7]
Past & Present was simultaneously influenced by theAnnales school of historians, which aimed to write history in its totality.[8]
The History Workshop movement, founded in the 1960s, aimed to become a platform for the study of "ordinary people". The influence ofPast & Present greatly expanded in the historical discipline after the publication of Thompson'sThe Making of the English Working Class in 1963.
After the end of the Second World War, an emerging subfield ofsocial history gradually became popular in history departments.
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