Damals is a German

Germany

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 monthly popular scientific

Popular science

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 history magazine. The name refers to the German

German language

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 word damals, meaning "back then". The magazine is issued since 1969 and aims primarily at students, teachers, university students, scientists and a readership interested in historical science.

The editors, being established historians

History

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, archaeologists

Archaeology

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, cultural scientists

Cultural studies

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 and philologists

Philology

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, write scientifically based articles. Each month another focus theme is portrayed. This concept distinguishes Damals from other German publications of the kind, for example G/Geschichte. The magazine features also brief book reviews, a historically oriented television and radio programme, research news and articles on topics with a wide range of historical era

Era

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s and themes. Moreover it covers current exhibitions which are often featured in whole articles or even as theme of the month.

The magazine whose scientific advisory body includes historians Christian Meier and Jürgen Osterhammel

Jürgen Osterhammel

Jürgen Osterhammel is a German historian.-Academia:Osterhammel started his academic career as a research fee student at the London School of Economics in 1976/77 and studied and worked there under Professor Ian Nish. In 1980 he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Kassel in Modern History...

, is published by Konradin Medien GmbH of Leinfelden-Echterdingen

Leinfelden-Echterdingen

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. Katja Kohlhammer, the publishing group's executive director, is the publisher.

Abstracts of current issues, yearly tables of content and an articles archive can be viewed online. In the last quarter of 2009, Damals had an edition of 30,295.