Bibliography of British and Irish History updated

An update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History was released on 13 October, containing 4,968 new records, bringing the overall total to 553,503. 224 of these new records relate to the history of London, including information on recently completed theses...

New reviews: Racisms, Homicide, Beau Monde and Marco Polo

This week we start with Francisco Bethencourt’s Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century. Panikos Panayi and the author discuss a book which moves the genesis of modern racial biologically determined ideology away from the ‘modern’ period (no. 1670, with...

Talk of Europe Creative Camp

One of our Amsterdam-based team members, Maarten Marx, is giving a presentation about DiLiPaD at the Talk of Europe Creative Camp on October 8, 2014 in Hilversum, The Netherlands. You can see the slides of Maarten’s talk here. See also...

Masculinity, mummies and margarine

One of the joys, and tribulations, of working on BBIH is the amount of material that comes across my desk (or indeed desktop). Joy in that there is such a range of material, and tribulation in the amount! As an indication of the range of material, I’ll highlight a...