Bulgarian Historical Review / Revue Bulgare d’Histoire is a publication of the Institute for Historical Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.It was first published in 1973 as an organ of the then Unified Center for Science and Training of History Professionals at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The first editor-in-chief (till 1990) was Dimitar Kossev and the editorial board included representatives of various scientific units - Mito Isusov and Virzhinia Paskaleva (deputy chief editors), L. Zhivkova, D. Angelov, At. Bozhkov, E. Buzhashki, V. Hadzhinikolov, Hr. Hristov, Y. Yotov, D. Mitchev, N. Todorov. In 1989, with the liquidation of the Unified Centers, it became the organ of the Institute of History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (since 2010, the Institute for Historical Research) and in 1990 the editor-in-chief was M. Isusov (until 1995). After that the editorial board is headed successively by Radoslav Popov (1995-2002), Virzhinia Paskaleva (2003-2011), Iliya Todev (2012–2016). At present Daniel Vachkov is editor-in-chief, and the editorial board includes distinguished scientists from the Institute for Historical Research, specialists in medieval, modern and contemporary Bulgarian and world history, history of the Bulgarian revival and the Bulgarian national question, Ottomanists, demographers and others.

Over the years, Bulgarian Historical Review, designed from the outset not as a narrow-institute journal, but as a publication of the whole professional historical college, has been reflecting the scientific achievements of Bulgarian historians in the field of national, Balkan and world history. It contains original and summarizing articles in the sphere of political, economic and cultural history of the Bulgarian lands during the different ages in the development of humankind - Ancient history, Middle Ages, Modern history and Contemporary history. Thus, one of its main tasks is accomplished - to clarify the multilateral relations of the Bulgarians with the other peoples over the centuries in order to reveal the place and the role of Bulgaria in the development of human civilization. At the same time, Bulgarian historical themes become entangled in European and world history.