Family and Community History

Aims & Scope

Family & Community History brings together historical and geographical approaches to communities and families in the past, setting them in an awareness of the importance of place.

Places provide the raw material for testing wider generalizations about the past and the journal explores the ways in which studies of local places can extend academic and theoretical contexts.

In pursuit of this aim we believe a range of methodological approaches can be applied to the study of past communities, including micro-studies, oral history and qualitative research as well as quantitative studies.

We define family and community history in a broad sense.

Family can include studies of family and household structures, personal and family life cycles, family roles, kin relationships and migration.

Community history can encompass social networks and structures, paid and unpaid work and religious, occupational, political or other voluntary-based communities.

The focus is on the history of the UK and Ireland from the 18th to 20th centuries, although the journal will publish articles on other areas and places where they make a clear comparative or methodological contribution.

View Aims & Scope

---

Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	30018

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	7

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.101

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	5

---

---

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

---

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

---

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Welfare Systems and the Parish Nurse in Early Modern London, 1650–1725

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Jeremy

• 'Monsters of the Vilest Kind': Infanticidal Women and Attitudes To Their Criminality In Eighteenth–century Scotland

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Anne-Marie

• Family, community and the Victorian asylum: a case study of the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum and its pauper lunatics

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Cathy

• INDUSTRIALIZATION IN BRITAIN: THE CHALLENGE OF MICRO-HISTORY

  Citation: 10

  Authors: PAT

• DEFINING COMMUNITY: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF ‘COMMUNITY’<i>IN FAMILY AND COMMUNITY HISTORY</i>

  Citation: 9

  Authors: DENNIS

• MILIEU SOCIAL OR MILIEU FAMILIAL? THEORIES AND PRACTICES OF CHILDREARING AMONG THE POPULAR CLASSES IN 20TH-CENTURY FRANCE AND BRITAIN: THE CASE OF EVACUATION (1939-45)

  Citation: 9

  Authors: LAURA LEE

• Pauper Letters as a Source

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Steven

• Almshouse Residency in Nineteenth Century England: An Interim Report

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Nigel, Stuart

• “Think Wot a Mother Must Feel”: Parenting in English Pauper Letters C. 1760–1834

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Joanne

• The working of the 1832 Anatomy Act in Oxford and Manchester

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Fiona

---