A Reflection on History and Archives in Practice 2026

May 21, 2026

This blog post was written by Sasha Pond and Sarah Snelling, the 2025-2026 Graduate Trainee Library Assistants at the IHR Wohl Library. On Thursday 16 April a group of four of us from the IHR attended this year’s History and Archives in Practice...

Researching the Histories of Medicine and Health in the Bibliography of British and Irish History 

Mar 5, 2026

In this blog post, Rachel Peacock (Queen’s University, Canada) and Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal (BBIH editor) discuss how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) can be used to research and teach the histories of medicine and...

Bibliography of British and Irish History February 2026 update 

Feb 13, 2026

What’s new in BBIH?   The February 2026 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds over 4,000 new publications. The new update includes books, journal articles, book chapters, and...

Christmas in the IHR Wohl Library

Dec 10, 2025

This blog post was written by Sasha Pond and Sarah Snelling, the 2025-2026 Graduate Trainee Library Assistants at the IHR Wohl Library. This Christmas at the IHR Wohl Library we are highlighting four seasonal works from our collection. This includes an Edwardian work...

Researching the History of Emotions in the Bibliography of British and Irish History

Dec 2, 2025

In this blog post, Dr Eloise Grey (University of Aberdeen) and Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal (editor of BBIH) discuss how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) can be used to research and teach the History of Emotions. BBIH and the History of Emotions BBIH is...

Advocating for History by Doing History

Nov 25, 2025

This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history matters. We have pointed to the skills of critical analysis that lie...