History for chocoholics

Manchester University Press’s latest book in their Studies in Imperialism series is entitled Chocolate, women and empire: a social and cultural history by Emma Robertson. Surprisingly the first English book on chocolate was published in 1662 – The Indian...

Britain and the Yemen Civil War

British covert involvement in the Yemeni civil war is the topic of the Radio 4 programme Document (broadcast 8/3/2010). Using sources from The National Archives it traces British policy towards Yemen detailing the involvement of Julian Amery and the prime minister...

Bibliography of British and Irish History and Zotero

Feedback on the Bibliography of British and Irish History has frequently raised the question of compatibility with Zotero, the reference management extension for the Firefox web browser. We are pleased to report that our publishers, Brepols, hope to implement Zotero...

Early View: latest articles

Two new Historical Research articles are now available on Early View: The establishment of a statutory militia in Ireland, 1692–1716: legislative processes and Protestant mentalities. NEAL GARNHAMA man of peaceable intent: Burckhardt, the British and Red Cross...