The author proceed from the belief that a research of the Soviet historiography demands a proper analysis of its organizational specificity, its concrete content, dynamics of its development and the effectiveness of scholarly contacts between Soviet historians and foreign researchers, representatives of world professional community. The paper considers one of the segments of this field of research — the long-term collaboration of Soviet specialists in British Studies and British historians in particular form of scientific forums — bilateral scholarly colliquia conducted in turns in the United Kingdom and in the Soviet Union under the aegis of the National Committees of Historians of the both countries. The documents preserved in the archive of the Russian National Committee of Historians allow to know concrete details of this long scholarly dialogue, its participants, problems under discussion, character and course of debates and even the preliminary efforts of the both sides to prepare a number of meetings.