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Use when targeting Past & Present or deciding whether a social, economic, or cultural history manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, its problem-driven "big question" argument 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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# Past & Present (past-and-present)

## Journal positioning

Past & Present, published by Oxford University Press for the Past and Present
Society, is a flagship of social, economic, and cultural history with a defining
**problem-driven ethos**: it favors articles built around a "big question" — a
genuine historical problem whose resolution speaks to processes of social change,
power, and structure — rather than a self-contained narrative or an additive case
study. Its house tradition is comparative, conceptually ambitious, and willing to
range across periods and societies when the question demands it; what unites the
journal is the conviction that a particular episode should illuminate something
broadly significant about how societies work and change. A meticulous local study
that never frames its larger stake is a poor fit, however well-sourced. This skill
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