« 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