Women’s History Month 2025: Celebrating Women’s Voices in the IHR Collections
This blog was written by Sarah Admans, graduate trainee librarian at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) Wohl Library 2024/25. It has been curated in celebration of Women’s History Month 2025. The IHR has a large collection of primary material focusing on women...
Bibliography of British and Irish History February 2025 update
What’s new in BBIH? The February 2025 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds 3,736 new publications. The new update includes books, journal articles, book chapters, and edited collections covering all areas of British and Irish history,...
Emotion and Space in the Mid-Victorian Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)
Lucy McCormick recently completed a summer internship at the IHR, in which she focused on representations of social class in the Bibliography of British and Irish History. In this blog, she explores how anti-suffragists weaponised emotion in relation to politicised...
Using Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) Data to Stimulate Classroom Discussion: The Case of the Peasants’ Revolt
This blog post was written by BBIH user Gordon McKelvie. History lecturers need to see the BBIH as more than a convenient tool for updating reading lists. Using the example of revolts through English history, this blog uses BBIH to produce data that can frame...