“The single most influential school of history of our time.” 

Professor Lynn Hunt, UCLA

“The journal and the individuals associated with it offer the most sustained example of fruitful interaction between history and social sciences to be found in our century.” 

Professor Peter Burke, University of Cambridge

“The most influential historiographical movement internationally in the twentieth century.” 

Professor Georg. G. Iggers, University of Buffalo

"The Annales is attributed the renewal and transformation of the French historical profession.” 

Professor Stuart Clark, Swansea University

 “By any measure, the Annales school has had an enormous influence on the historical profession. The journal Annales d’histoire économique et sociale, founded in the late 1920s, developed into a major historical movement.” 

Professor Toby Burrows, King’s College London