Who We Are
The First Dedicated Undergraduate Journal in Historical Political Economy
Rigorous, peer-reviewed, and entirely student-led.
Our Origin
Why Epoch Exists
Epoch was established in response to the rapid ascent of Historical Political Economy as an academic field and the conspicuous absence of a formal platform for exceptional undergraduate research within it.
Conceived as the first dedicated undergraduate journal in HPE, our mission is to uncover, rigorously review, and celebrate research that too often fades into obscurity after formal assessment. The discipline’s growing prominence has demonstrated the explanatory power of long-run institutional analysis in illuminating contemporary challenges. We hold that historically literate political economy is indispensable to both scholarship and policy-making.
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Epoch operates as a competitive, peer-evaluated platform organised around focused themes. Our curated digital volumes feature research that investigates the mechanisms of politics and economics through time, drawing on both qualitative and quantitative methodologies in line with the field’s methodological pluralism.
As an entirely student-led, peer-reviewed publication, Epoch operates through formalised editorial procedures, including the collective selection of prize-winning essays, double-refereed reviews, and substantive editing. Beyond publication, we foster an intellectual community through scholarly dialogues, workshops, and networking initiatives.
Our Mission
Scholarly, Professional, and Civic
Our Values
What We Stand For
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Rigour
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Pluralism
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Community
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Access
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Independence
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Impact
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Academic Focus
History and Political Economy
Historical Political Economy insists that political and economic phenomena cannot be understood in isolation from their historical context. It draws on political science, economics, sociology, and history to ask how institutions, actors, and ideas have shaped the material conditions of their time.
Epoch publishes research that engages seriously with this framework, with a particular interest in work that uses long-run institutional analysis to illuminate contemporary challenges: inequality, state formation, financial systems, and the politics of development.
We welcome submissions from students across History, Politics, Economics, and closely related disciplines, provided the work engages substantively with the intersection of historical analysis and political-economic inquiry.
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