The first decade

The South African Journal of Economic History has come a long way since its Johannesburg conception in April 1986. After a gestation period of only three months, it was formalised at the Grahamstown council meeting that July and a tumultuous two months later, a typographically unsophisticated, but nevertheless proud, Volume 1, Number 1, nervously emerged into the real world as a bouncing baby weighing in at 45 440 words. Ten volumes, 123 articles and just over a million words later, averaging 53 694 words an issue, the journal enters its second decade as a well-established, polished, academic publication.