Northern History
Northern History is an academic journal of the history of the northern counties of England. It was first published in 1966 under the auspices of the School of History, University of Leeds. It is indexed by Scopus. The journal's founding Editor was G.C.F. Forster and he retired from the journal after the publication of issue 53.2. In 1997, S.J.D. Green joined as co-editor. In 2016, the Editorial team changed to: S.J.D. Green, Julia Barrow FBA and Stephen Alford. The journal is currently published by Routledge.
The journal's purpose is to publish scholarly work on the history of the seven historic Northern counties of England: Cheshire, Cumberland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire. Since it was launched it has always been a refereed journal, attracting articles on Northern subjects from historians in many parts of the world.
