Northern History is an academic journal of the history of the northern counties of England. It was first published in 1966 under the auspices of the School of History, University of Leeds. It is indexed by Scopus. The journal's founding editor was G. C. F. Forster, and the first issue was 'facilitated by a guarantee from the publications fund of the University of Leeds, and by donations from local firms and individuals'. Forster retired from the journal after the publication of issue 53.2. In 1997, S. J. D. Green joined as co-editor. In 2016, the Editorial team changed to: Green, Julia Barrow FBA and Stephen Alford. From September 2022 to March 2024, the editor was Julia Barrow. From March 2024, the editors are Julia Barrow and Peter Maw. The journal is currently published by Routledge.