ABSTRACT
Founded in 1929 by two major historians Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, Annales is a French journal of history and the social sciences. Both founding figures were accomplished historians whose respective work had already won them recognition. Although the Annales project was conceived in the 1920s, it would take close to a decade to come to fruition. Bloch and Febvre moved in the same intellectual circles before they became colleagues at Strasbourg. It is true that the editorial committee would play only a minor role in the journal's direction and that the management of Annales remained firmly in the hands of Bloch and Febvre. From the very first issue of Annales, they made it clear to their readership that it would be 'through example and fact', through practical and empirical work, that the Annales approach would be illustrated and 'not through articles on methodology or theoretical essays'.
