A brief history of Veterinary Record

From the beginning, Hunting's new journal aimed to cover the broad spectrum of veterinary matters: reports of clinical meetings were the germ of what became continuing professional development; descriptions of conferences and meetings helped encourage links between the scattered community of individual vets; the education and training of young vets was regularly discussed; economic matters figured large among the contents, and political events began to assume importance. [...]Brown's job title remained sub-editor until 1945.) Almost single-handedly, he was responsible for every aspect of the journal except editorial policy until his death shortly after he retired in 1954. Because there was no single guiding hand, the editorial policies had been somewhat haphazard; congress papers, good or less good, were published automatically - and, crucially, there was no proper panel of scrutineers. The move also saw an expansion of Veterinary Record's editorial team, with the appointment of a Veterinary Editor-in-Chief, Professor the Lord Trees, along with the establishment of an editorial board, to help further develop the clinical content of the journal.