Editorial Note

With this number the Journal enters into its eleventh year of publication. To mark the occasion the present issue has been made larger than any previous one. But the editor also wants to make this into an opportunity to restate and review editorial policy, which has not been done in these pages before. It did, and still does, seem desirable to keep policy as flexible as possible to accommodate developments. Yet a Journal must have a well enough defined aim even if it be held as it were in reserve. Here, then, is an effort to make the experience of the years explicit—it is no more than that.

In the editorial note to the first issue, the origins of the Journal were reviewed and the reasons why the initiative for starting it came from the London Society. There were, even at that time, those who wanted to alter the title so that the word ‘British’ was included. In opposition to this idea it was the intention of the editor, supported by the Society, that the Journal should clearly keep its doors open to good contributions from any country, i.e. that its scope should be international and that this policy should be made explicit by the title and a list of collaborating editors. A further experiment in international cooperation has been the addition of a Zusammenfassung at the end of each article to assist German-speaking readers. At the same time it was stated that space would be available for up to one short article in German each year, if submitted with a translation in English. So far this offer has been made use of only once, but in this number there is a first contribution from Germany.

In a brochure circulated after the Journal began to appear, the following statement of policy was made, which still stands:

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