Diversity and Inequality in the Library
By Matt Shaw and Michael Townsend There aren’t many awards for libraries, but if there were, a case for a speech similar to that made by Joachim Phoenix at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards could be made. For his best actor speech,...
Advise the Wohl Library and Archive
Are you an early-career researcher? Would you like to help shape the development of the Wohl Library of the Institute of Historical Research? We’re looking for an ECR to join the library and archive’s Advisory Committee. Since 1921, the IHR library and archives...
Publishing political history: what can the Bibliography of British and Irish History tell us?
by Shadia Moussa and Sara Charles With the 2019 election looming, we looked at the resources in the Bibliography of British and Irish History to see what it could tell us about publishing trends in political history. Larger version available This graph shows a...
Historians and BBIH. No 5: Matthew Parker and the peer review process
Let’s take 10 famous historical historians — one each week — and see what they can achieve with the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). The Bibliography is a record of more than 610,000 publications relating to Britain, Ireland and the...