During the period from 2013 to 2014, eight books and ninety eight articles have been published about British history in the Korean academic circle. It would be that the British historians have produced almost ninety articles every two year since 2007....
During the period from 2013 to 2014, eight books and ninety eight articles have been published about British history in the Korean academic circle. It would be that the British historians have produced almost ninety articles every two year since 2007. That is not a small volume of academic research. It means that British historiography in Korea has been placed on a stable foundation. As European history is no more ‘universal’ history than British history, it can be taken as a model of modernization. British studies have drawn more and more interests as Korean scholars have been being liberated from the obsession of modernity. Generally British history studies show ‘a growth in stability’ last two years. Besides conventional research areas such as political, social, cultural, imperial history, new fields such as transnational, migration, racism come to rise and several historians publish high quality empirical studies during this period. Since 2006 the Korean Society of British History has held communication with Japanese British historians. Through the exchange with Japanese scholars the Society tries to read the British history from the perspective of East Asia. However, the Korean scholarship confronts a structural problem. That is the reproduction of future generation historians. The number of new scholars who finish their doctorial degree in British Studies decrease compared to that of French history or American history, Russian history. For the future academic continuation of British history, this will be a major challenge to tackle with.