Bibliography of British and Irish History updated

An update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History was released on 9 October, containing 5,500 new records, of which over 3,500 deal with publications of 2011-12. Nearly 600 of the new records deal with the history of Ireland (or with Anglo-Irish relations and...

The Prime Ministers’ Rating Game: The Top Ten at No. 10

So who has been the best prime minster of Britain since 1945? A 2010 survey in The Political Quarterly [1] lists the following order:-AttleeThatcherBlairMacmillanWilsonChurchillCallaghanMajorHeathBrownDouglas-HomeEdenBased on a survey of academics, the list echoes a...

Bibliography of British and Irish History updated

The latest update to BBIH, published on 13 June 2012, contains just over 5,000 new records, of which 2,413 describe books and articles published in 2011-12. The complete database, including titles from Irish History Online and London’s Past Online, now contains...

The Bible, Shakespeare and national dictionaries of biography

When I first started to edit BBIH I used the Concise Dictionary of National Biography and then the CD-Rom version. Both were very useful, however searching them did slow down the process of editing and checking material for inclusion. Then came the online versions of...

More on the Bibliography on Swiss History

Following a previous blog on the online availability of the Bibliography on Swiss History (BSH) I can report that volumes for the years 2008 and 2009 of the Bibliography have now been published. They are available in PDF format on the BSH site. All the bibliographic...