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Aims & Scope

About the Journal Focus and Scope BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review was founded in 1877 and is the leading academic journal for the history of the Netherlands, Belgium and their global presence. The journal publishes articles and review articles which explore broad and important issues in the history of the Low Countries and seeks to do so in a wider comparative and international context. In creating discussion fora and publishing book reviews, the journal aims to enliven historical debate among both professional historians and a wider interested public. Rigorously peer-reviewed and published in print and in Open Access, BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review seeks to present the best historical scholarship of both junior and senior scholars. The journal accommodates all historical subdisciplines, covers the history of the Low Countries since the Middle Ages, and accepts contributions in Dutch and English. Publisher BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review is the flagship journal of the Royal Netherlands Historical Society / Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap (KNHG). The KNHG was founded in 1845 and is the oldest and largest professional organisation of historians in The Netherlands. This learned society aims to promote the study of history and the dissemination of historical research with special regard to the history of the Low Countries. The KNHG serves more than 1000 history professionals: academics, students, teachers, and historians working in museums, archives, libraries and the heritage industry. The KNHG offers a platform for discussion and debate to its members and to the historical community at large. It plays an important role as a leader and public advocate for the field. BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review is published by the KNHG as a printed journal and as an Open Access journal on the journal platform of Openjournals. The KNHG works closely with the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (Huygens ING), the Royal Netherl

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