Top 10 summer reading suggestions from the Bibliography of British and Irish History

Aug 6, 2018

Now that summer is definitely here, it’s time to share our BBIH top ten summer reads. We have compiled a list of some of the most interesting and/or surprising items that we have indexed over the last six months for the Bibliography of British and Irish History. We...

Latest reviews – outlawing war, Victorian surgery and Lincoln’s jokes

Jun 21, 2018

We begin this week with The Internationalists and Their Plan to Outlaw War, edited by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro. Peter Yearwood believes this book fails as a work of history, bound up as it is with a deeply flawed and greatly overstated thesis (no. 2257)....

Bibliography of British and Irish History, June 2018 Update: new citation function and user survey

Jun 11, 2018

An update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History was published on 11 June 2018. 2,724 new records have been added. Some 297 new records relate to Irish history while 120 deal with the history of London, 152 with the history of Scotland and 138 with...

Latest reviews – 1860 election, anti-slavery, American Revolution and Catholic queens

Jun 7, 2018

We begin this week with Susan Dunn-Hensley’s Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria: Virgins, Witches, and Catholic Queens. Aidan Norrie and the author discuss an interesting, if sometimes simplistic, reconsideration of these two queens (no. 2253, with response...

Latest reviews – medieval prophets, British Atlantic Jacobitism and Indian railways

May 31, 2018

We begin this week with Railways and The Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India by Christian Wolmar. Aparajita Mukhopadhyay and Christian Wolmar discuss a history of Indian railways which attempts to straddle the world of academic monographs and popular history...

Latest reviews – British C17 Empire, nuclear armageddon, C18 Italian anatomy & Herbert Gladstone

May 24, 2018

We begin this week with Advancing Empire: English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1613-1688 by L. H. Roper. David Hope and the author discuss an accomplished book that has much to offer those interested in state formation, political economy, overseas trade, and the...