[1] The Journal "publishes a wide variety of essays, reports and reviews, ranging from literary to economic subjects, local history to geopolitical analyses.

This information was presented in Thomson Reuters' Journal Citation Reports for the social sciences for 2009.

Bill Schwarz wrote that the "History Workshop functioned in Britain as an effective alternative historical apparatus.

[4] Samuel defined the movement as being "the belief that history is or ought to be a collaborative enterprise, one in which the researcher, the archivist, the curator and the teacher, the 'do-it-yourself' enthusiast and the local historian, the family history societies and the individual archaeologist, should all be regarded as equally engaged.

The British movement also inspired several international History Workshops in Europe, South Africa and America.