By Simon Baker The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is a record of nearly 620,000 books, articles and essays relating to the British and Irish past and the British world. BBIH is updated three times a year, with the next release in early June. Our...
By Peter Webster What’s the status, and value, of the edited essay collection in History publishing? In his new book—The Edited Collection: Pasts, Present and Futures (Cambridge University Press)—Peter Webster considers book chapters and collections as forms of...
By Sam Manning Cinemas are just one of the popular public arenas required to close during the current COVID-19 emergency. But for many UK venues this crisis has historical resonance. Here, cinema historian Dr Sam Manning considers how the film industry and British...
A History of the County of OxfordXIX: Wychwood Forest and EnvironsEdited by Simon Townley The latest volume in the Oxfordshire series of the Victoria County History (VCH) just been published by Boydell and Brewer is the 19th in the set describing this large and...
Competition for 2019 has now closed; winners will be announced. The Pollard Prize is awarded annually for the best paper presented at an Institute of Historical Research seminar by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of completing the PhD. The...