The Chiropractic Journal of Australia: A valuable repository of our profession's history.

To report in descriptive terms the number and nature of Historical Articles and related papers puboished in this Journal during the 25 year period of editorship by Dr Mary Ann Chance and Dr Rolf E Peters. Methods: Hand-search of the author's library to locate and order all issues of the Journal of the Australian Chiropractors' Association from and including December 1983 and all issues of the Chiropractic Journal of Australia March March 1991 to and including September 2008. Items categorised as an Historical Article or In Memoriam were entered into an electronic spreadsheet for further analysis. Related papers were also noted. Results: A total of 32 named writers produced 89 papers classified as historical. A further fivce were unattributed, giving a total of 94. The greater majority of papers (n=54) are written by a sole author, leaving just 8 with multiple authors other than the editors who contributed 27 papers as co-authors. Chance and Peters have made a significant contribution to documenting the history of the Palmer family while the other theses are largely chiropractic history in the Australian context, including education.