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...

Irish History Online: future plans

Like the RHS Bibliography, Irish History Online will be changing its publication arrangements in the new year, but will remain a free service at https://www.irishhistoryonline.ie/. More information is available on Irish History Online’s website.

Update to Bibliography of British and Irish History

The new Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), which will replace the RHS Bibliography and London’s Past Online from 1 January 2010, has been updated. There are 3,000 additional titles and some problems with the geographical and subject indexing of...

Too many Shakespeare biographies?

Radio 4’s Today programme (08:57) discussed the recent conference celebrating the 1709 biography of Shakespeare by Nicholas Rowe. How many studies of Shakespeare are there? From the RHS Bibliography there are 780 references, everything from Rowe’s...