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Use when targeting the Journal of Social History or deciding whether a social-history manuscript on everyday life, class, gender, family, work, crime, or marginalized groups fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, its methodologically self-conscious social-history bar, primary-source and historiographical expectations, Chicago house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

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# Journal of Social History (journal-of-social-history)

## Journal positioning

The Journal of Social History, published by Oxford University Press, is a leading venue
for social history — the history of everyday life, social structures, and lived
experience: class, gender, family, work, sexuality, crime and punishment, childhood,
aging, leisure, and the experience of marginalized and ordinary people across periods
and regions. Its defining expectation is an argument that recovers and explains social
experience with **methodological self-consciousness**: an explicit account of how the
sources are read to reach people who left few records, and a historiographical stake in
how social history understands its subject. A study of high politics, formal
institutions, or canonical ideas with no attention to lived social experience is a poor
fit, as is a descriptive recovery with no argument or method. This skill is a **fit /
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