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German History 2009 27(1):1-3; doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghn073
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the German History Society. All rights reserved.

German History: A Silver Jubilee Editorial

Richard J. Evans and Mary Fulbrook, Founder-Editors

Cambridge University; University College London

rje36@cam.ac.uk, m.fulbrook@ucl.ac.uk

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With this issue, German History celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary. The first number was commissioned and worked on through the summer of 1983, and finally appeared in 1984 in what became the classic red-coloured cover, but otherwise rather more amateurishly produced and with the title in Gothic lettering, a font subsequently discarded because it had associations some members disliked. From its inception, German History led the way in stimulating research and debate across the whole of German history; many of its earliest ideas have since been taken over and have by now become standard practice across a field whose communicative landscape has in the meantime been transformed.

The journal was initiated by the Committee of the German History Society, itself a relatively new creation dating from 1979. The Committee wanted to issue a regular newsletter to keep members in touch, and also thought it would be useful to establish a register . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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