About us

The quarterly Dzieje Najnowsze [Recent History], published by the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, is a periodical devoted to Polish history and universal history of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Journal was founded in 1969 by Tadeusz Jędruszczak, Czesław Madajczyk, and Witold Stankiewicz as a continuation of the periodicals previously published by the Institute – a scientific annual Najnowsze Dzieje Polski, published since 1958 in two series: “Materials and studies from the period 1914–1939” and “Materials and studies from the Second World War”, and the journal Polska Ludowa: Materiały i Studia (People's Poland: Materials and Studies, published between 1962 and 1968). 

The Journal presently concentrates primarily on widely understood historical subjects (political history, history of diplomacy, history of everyday life). It also publishes texts from the domains of political and administrative sciences and sociological sciences.

The Journal is included in the list of journals of the Ministry of Education and Science (100 points).

In recent years, Dzieje Najnowsze implemented the programme ‘Support for Scientific Journals’ of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Afterwards, a two-year project ‘Development of Scientific Journals’ of the Ministry of Education and Science (contract no. RCN/SN/0184/2021/1 from 18.11.2022, state budget financing 79150,00 PLN for 2023-2024) has been implemented, aimed at further raising the scientific and editorial level of the journal published in open access and greater internationalisation (e.g. by publishing texts in English, updating the website, applying to reference databases, providing promotional copies).