Aims and Scope

The Sensus Historiae journal publishes academic articles in the field of historical sciences and interdisciplinary articles reflecting on the historical experience of societies. The aim of the journal, as expressed in its title, is to study the transformations of historical consciousness, memory, and historical culture of societies from the modern era to the present day, i.e., during the broadly understood modern period to the present day.

We prefer comparative approaches within nation states, comparative approaches within Central and Eastern Europe, within the entire European continent. We are also interested in historical comparative studies between distant civilizations, cultures, and continents. The time span ranges from the 16th to the 21st century.

We are interested in the processes of transformation of these historical phenomena within nation states, as well as the mutual perception of societies that are both neighboring and distant in time and space. The mission of the journal is to interpret national histories within a network of connections, mutual influences, and parallels (this involves interpretative strategies such as those indicated by the terms connected history, Beziehungsgeschichte, histoire croisée, etc.) with varying spatial scope, from the Central European context, through the European context, to connections between regions on a global scale.

We invite researchers interested in issues related to historical consciousness, historical culture, political thought and culture, the history of ideas, cultural history, historical education, historical sociology, historical memory, the history of historical identities, history teaching, historical theory and methodology, the history of historiography, etc. to publish their work in our journal. Together with our authors, we reflect on how individuals and historical communities articulated their historical experience and how they perceived each other as agents of history.

Archival volumes of the journal can be found at: https://www.sensushistoriae.epigram.eu

The Journal's History
The Sensus Historiae journal was established in 2010 as a quarterly published by the Epigram Publishing House. It published academic articles on history and historical sciences, Eastern studies, cultural studies, and philosophy. The first editor-in-chief of the quarterly was historian Prof. Wojciech Wrzosek (editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2014), followed by philosopher Prof. Anna Pałubicka (2014-2020) and, jointly, historian Prof. Józef Dobosz and philosopher Prof. Roman Kubicki (2021-2024). Since 2025, the journal has been published by the Faculty of History of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Ethics
The journal has procedures in place to detect and prevent scientific dishonesty and plagiarism.
Violations of scientific integrity result in refusal to publish an article.
If doubts arise about the integrity of a submitted article, the author has the right to respond to the raised objections.
The journal does not accept ghostwriting or guest authorship.
The editorial board adheres to the norms of good practices in creating scientific articles for publication.
The journal does not accept ghostwriting or guest authorship.
The journal's editorial board applies principles of good practice in creating and reviewing scientific articles submitted for publication.
For publications with multiple authors, the editorial board requires a declaration from the authors detailing their respective contributions to the publication's preparation.

Reviewing process:
Each article that has been pre-approved by the Editorial board is reviewed by two Reviewers who are not employed by the institution that employs the Author of the article.
At least a half of Reviewers are neither members of the Editorial board, nor employed in the institution that employs the Editor in chief of the journal.
The reviewing process follows the rules of double-blind review procedure — Authors and Reviewers remain anonymous to each other. In some cases the Reviewer is obliged to declare that the reviewing does not entail the conflict of interests.
Reviewers use the reviewing form.
The review contains an explicit conclusion concerning the acceptance or rejection of the article.
The reviewing form is available at the journal online site.
Reviewers names are published once a year in the final volume for the particular year and at the online site of the journal.