Learning from the Windrush Scandal Oral History Archives

Dec 6, 2023

This summer Destinie Reynolds completed a three-month internship with the IHR’s History & Policy research team. In this blog, Destinie shares her experience of working on the AHRC-funded oral history project “The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and...

Gender and Bathing in Antiquity 

Nov 13, 2023

This blog was written by Dr Giacomo Savani, an expert in Roman baths and ancient senses, and a recent intern looking at gender histories in the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). A version of this text was posted on the Women’s History Network blog in...

Bibliography of British and Irish History: October 2023 update 

Nov 9, 2023

What’s new in BBIH?   The October 2023 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds 4,091 new publications. The new update includes books, journal articles, book chapters, and edited collections covering all areas of British and Irish history,...

Researching Black British History, Race, and Ethnicity in the Bibliography of British and Irish History

Oct 22, 2023

Gaverne Bennett, PhD history research student at Leicester University, has recently completed a three month internship at the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) looking at Race and Ethnicity. He also created the Guardian newspapers bestselling black...

Emotions in the Bibliography of British and Irish History

Oct 6, 2023

This blog was written by Dr Sarah Collins, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University. Emotions, as the saying goes, make us human. Without thinking, we are surrounded by consequences of emotional decision making—our families, our work, our environment;...

The Bibliography of British and Irish History in the classroom: teaching representations of queerness

Sep 18, 2023

Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) Sexual and Racial identity intern, Dr Leah Veronese, discusses how the BBIH can be used in the classroom: she outlines an undergraduate seminar she has designed and taught on eighteenth century representations of...