Bibliography of British and Irish History update

An update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History was released today. It includes over 5,000 new records, bringing the total number of records to 494,000. There are also some minor improvements to the online interface, and we are pleased to welcome two new...

Bibliography of British and Irish History update

The latest update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History, launched on 4 June 2010, includes compatibility with Zotero, the reference management extension for the Firefox web browser, as well as 9,774 new records. You can find out more from the...

World War II Quarterly changes name to Global War Studies…

World War II Quarterly has changed its name to Global War Studies: The Journal for the Study of Warfare and Weapons, 1919-1945. The latest issue contains an historiographical survey of the military aspects of Winston Churchill’s career and a section entitled New...

History for chocoholics

Manchester University Press’s latest book in their Studies in Imperialism series is entitled Chocolate, women and empire: a social and cultural history by Emma Robertson. Surprisingly the first English book on chocolate was published in 1662 – The Indian...

Britain and the Yemen Civil War

British covert involvement in the Yemeni civil war is the topic of the Radio 4 programme Document (broadcast 8/3/2010). Using sources from The National Archives it traces British policy towards Yemen detailing the involvement of Julian Amery and the prime minister...

Bibliography of British and Irish History and Zotero

Feedback on the Bibliography of British and Irish History has frequently raised the question of compatibility with Zotero, the reference management extension for the Firefox web browser. We are pleased to report that our publishers, Brepols, hope to implement Zotero...