Scholarly Exclusiveness and the Foundation of the English Historical Review
Scholarly Exclusiveness and the Foundation of the English Historical Review
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学术排他性与英国历史评论的基础
DOI:
10.1111/j.1468-2281.1988.tb01059.x
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发表时间:
1988
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0.4
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A. Kadish
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A. Kadish
F o R En G Li s H hstorians and for students of English history and historiography the following account of the foundation of the EHR may seem to fall under the category of family gossip-a tale appropriate for anniversaries. However the purpose of this article is not only, or even mainly, to set the record straight, but to uncover a more important issue, the question of scholarly exclusiveness. To examine how the criteria of legitimate scholarship were determined and by whom. The matter, it should be noted, had relatively little to do with academic status, hence the subject cannot be simply dismissed as a technical aspect of professionalization in which a line was drawn between amateurs and professional academics. As to what extent these deliberations anticipated the HistoricalJoumal or History Today, that remains to be decided by future research. According to the ‘official’history, or, rather, prehstory, of the English Historical Review’it had originated in a discussion which took place in January 1867 between JR Green, then incumbent of St. Philip’s, Stepney, W. Hunt and James Bryce, at the time assistant commissioner of the Schools Enquiry Commission, at Green’s house in Stepney. In describing the meeting to E. A. Freeman, Green wrote:Much of our chat turned on a scheme Hunt and I thought we had hit out together, but which (it seems) Bryce had anticipated-the starting of a purely Historical Review. He consulted [Alexander] Macmillan, who believed it would certainly succeed, but recommended the form to be an annual volume like the Oxford Essays [ie Esqx on Reform]? This, however, is not Bryce’s view; he would prefer a Quarterly; for my own pan I believe in a shilling Monthly. Ably done, as Bryce says, if it did not find an historic interest abroad it would create it. He had spoken to [W.] Stubbs, and stubbs was warm in support. He thought of Stubbs as Editor.’