The History of the Family

The History of the Family: An International Quarterly makes a significant contribution by publishing works reflecting new developments in scholarship and by charting new directions in the historical study of the family.

Open to both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and with no chronological limitations, The History of the Family encourages articles on comparative research across various cultures and societies in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim, in addition to Europe, the United States and Canada. While firmly rooted in history, the journal is interdisciplinary; it publishes articles on demography, anthropology, sociology, history and psychology as they relate to historical developments in family and the life course.

The History of the Family publishes essays submitted by individual authors as well as special thematic issues, examples of which have included ‘Violence, Family and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe’, ‘Intergenerational Transmission of Reproductive Behavior’ and ‘The Power of the Fathers’. The journal also publishes book review essays, methodological reports, descriptions of databases and other source materials and conference reports.  

All submitted manuscripts are subject to rigorous, double-blind peer review. The History of the Family publishes highly-cited work indexed in the Thomson Reuters Social Science Index and Scopus.