Historians and BBIH — an adventure in 10 episodes. No. 3: Matthew Paris & reading lists

Oct 30, 2019

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 600,000 publications relating to Britain, Ireland and the...

Historians and BBIH — an adventure in 10 episodes. No. 2: Gerald of Wales

Oct 23, 2019

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 600,000 publications relating to Britain, Ireland and the...

Historians and BBIH — an adventure in 10 episodes. No 1: Bede

Oct 16, 2019

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 600,000 publications relating to Britain, Ireland and the...

Mapping 2750 furniture makers on Layers of London

Oct 9, 2019

By Adriana Turpin The British and Irish Furniture Makers Online (BIFMO) project is a partnership between the Institute of Historical Research and the Furniture History Society. It encompasses research, resources, training and events to engage with a...

‘It may hereby please you to understand’: early modern petitions on British History Online

Oct 1, 2019

By Brodie Waddell September 2019 saw publication of the first tranche of content from The Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth Century England — a research project to transcribe and publish more than 2000 petitions composed and sent between the late sixteenth and...

London is Calling

Sep 17, 2019

By Philip Carter The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) now gives you easy access to more than 1,200 Masters and PhD theses on the history of London. Using the Bibliography’s Advanced Search, you can explore metropolitan dissertations by title,...