How to pretend you’ve read everything; or, making use of BBIH for 2019-20 reading lists
By Philip Carter In late summer a history lecturer’s fancy wearily turns to thoughts of reading lists. But what to add to last year’s carefully constructed selection, and where to start? The IHR’s Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is designed to help...
Top 10 summer reading suggestions from the Bibliography of British and Irish History
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
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
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...