A NEW ENGLISH-LANGUAGE JOURNAL: THE HUNGARIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
A NEW ENGLISH-LANGUAGE JOURNAL: THE HUNGARIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW

Summary/Abstract: Apart from university departments, research institutes and learned societies, the most important institutional preconditions of the emergence and continuance of an academic discipline include specialised scholarly journals. The professional orientation and academic quality of the latter determine to a great extent the development of the given discipline. That is why all such endeavours are worth attention. The academic yield can be even more considerable, and thereby the interest is especially justified, if the journal’s language is English – as in the case of the recently launched Hungarian Historical Review (HHR). Obviously, this short review cannot aim to describe in detail this periodical, and, in particular, the contents of the issues already published or forthcoming. Rather, four major points related to the publication will be addressed. First, some basic facts about the journal will be reviewed, focusing on the institution and people behind it. Secondly, the antecedents of the journal will be investigated, as, given the fairly painful experience with English-language historical periodicals in Hungary, this new initiative can be properly understood and assessed in the context of the forerunners. Thirdly, the goals and the functions of the journal will be dealt with, including the inherent pitfalls of the publication. And, finally, based on the first two double issues, we will briefly reflect on some of the most important problems the editors have to face during their everyday work.

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