My colleagues in the library have already blogged about History Day, however I thought I’d follow it up from the perspective of the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) as I’ve had a number of enquiries which I can address here. After an outline of the...
I was all set to try and tie things in with the World Cup this week, but what with England already having disembarked at Luton there really doesn’t seem much point. Oh, and none of the books are football-related in any way… So away from the ignominies of our...
This is a post from team member Josh Cowls, cross-posted from his blog. Josh is also on Twitter: @JoshCowls. I am in Aarhus this week for the ‘Web Archiving and Archived Web’ seminar organised by Netlab at Aarhus University. Before the seminar got underway, I had time...
An update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History was published on 15 June. Over 5,000 new records have been added. Nearly 550 of these new records relate to Irish history, while 244 deal with the history of London. To coincide with this year’s...
Welcome back to Reviews in History, your weekly digest of reviews of books and digital resources from across the subject. Thanks for all your birthday present suggestions last week! As many of you pointed out, there are few tight domestic situations that high-quality...
The British Library is about to embark on its annual task of archiving the entire UK web space. We will be pushing the button, sending out our ‘bots to crawl every British domain for storage in the UK Legal deposit web archive. How much will we capture? Even our...
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