Historical Encounters is a double blind peer-reviewed, diamond open access, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the empirical and theoretical study of:

• historical consciousness;

• historical cultures; and

• history education.

• The journal is published by the HERMES History Education Research Network concentrated at The University of Newcastle, Australia.

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• The journal is indexed in SCOPUS, DOAJ, and Google Scholar.

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• Completed volumes of the journal are archived via the National Library of Australia's edeposit system (NED), and discoverable through Trove.

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• From 2021, all individual articles and issues are published with Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) registered with Crossref. We will slowly be assigning DOIs to individual articles from back issues throughout 2022.

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• Articles are distributed under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License.

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• Contributors to the journal retain copyright to their work. Please read the Author Copyright policy for full details.

All Correspondence

A/ Prof. Robert Parkes

Executive Editor | Historical Encounters

The Executive Editor is the key liaison with potential authors regarding suitability of possible submissions; potential Guest Editors; and all external agencies and institutions; including all journal policy and management matters.

A/ Prof. Debra Donnelly

Senior Editor | Historical Encounters

The Senior Editor is the key liaison with authors who have submissions under review; including the status of a (new or revised) manuscript under review.

The administrative editor is the key liaison with potential and actual reviewers; and authors whose manuscript has been accepted and is now in the copy-editing, proofing and publication phase.