Family & Community History

期刊简介：Family & Community History brings together historical and geographical approaches to communities and families in the past, setting them in an awareness of the importance of place. Places provide the raw material for testing wider generalizations about the past and the journal explores the ways in which studies of local places can extend academic and theoretical contexts. In pursuit of this aim we believe a range of methodological approaches can be applied to the study of past communities, including micro-studies, oral history and qualitative research as well as quantitative studies. We define family and community history in a broad sense. Family can include studies of family and household structures, personal and family life cycles, family roles, kin relationships and migration. Community history can encompass social networks and structures, paid and unpaid work and religious, occupational, political or other voluntary-based communities. The focus is on the history of the UK and Ireland from the 18th to 20th centuries, although the journal will publish articles on other areas and places where they make a clear comparative or methodological contribution. The journal is peer-reviewed and combines scholarly methods and presentation with an emphasis on accessibility and an openness to independent as well as institutionally-based researchers. Family & Community History is the journal of the Family and Community Historical Research Society which aims to promote and communicate research in family and community history within a scholarly framework and to encourage links between institutionally-based and independent researchers.

【译文】家庭与社区历史汇集了过去对社区和家庭的历史和地理方法，使他们认识到地方的重要性。地方为测试对过去更广泛的概括提供了原材料，该杂志探索了对当地地方的研究可以扩展学术和理论背景的方式。为了实现这一目标，我们相信一系列方法论方法可以应用于对过去社区的研究，包括微观研究、口述历史、定性研究以及定量研究。我们从广义上定义家庭和社区历史。家庭可以包括对家庭和家庭结构、个人和家庭生命周期、家庭角色、亲属关系和移民的研究。社区历史可以涵盖社会网络和结构、有偿和无偿工作以及宗教、职业、政治或其他自愿社区。重点是英国和爱尔兰从 18 世纪到 20 世纪的历史，尽管该杂志将发表关于其他领域和地方的文章，在这些领域和地方做出了明确的比较或方法论贡献。该期刊经过同行评审，结合了学术方法和演示，强调可访问性以及对独立和机构研究人员的开放性。家庭和社区历史是家庭和社区历史研究学会的期刊，旨在在学术框架内促进和交流家庭和社区历史研究，并鼓励机构研究人员和独立研究人员之间的联系。