The Victorian Historical Journal, first published as the Victorian Historical Magazine in 1911, is the official journal of record and scholarly publication of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. It has become a vast collaborative history of Victoria with hundreds of individual contributors and topics and has itself become a primary source for researchers. At times a journal of record, piety for pioneers, peroration for patriotism, it has also offered challenging perspectives. Although now a refereed journal with outstanding academic contributors, it has always encouraged well-researched papers by non professional historians.
A recent innovation has been the introduction of Historical Notes – an opportunity to publish less academic articles. The committee of the Victorian Historical Journal encourages authors to contribute articles – please see the Guidelines for Contributors (pdf, 48KB).
The Victorian Historical Journal is published twice yearly and is available from the Society for $15.00 (plus $3.50 p&h).
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Following a successful Victoria 175 grant, early editions of the Victorian Historical Journal up to 1954 have been digitised and can be found on the State Library of Victoria‘s website.
Search the Victorian Historical Journal (1911-1954) via the State Library of Victoria. You can also search the Victorian Historical Journal Indexes online.
