Irish History Online: future plans

Like the RHS Bibliography, Irish History Online will be changing its publication arrangements in the new year, but will remain a free service at http://www.irishhistoryonline.ie/. More information is available on Irish History Online’s website.

Update to Bibliography of British and Irish History

The new Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), which will replace the RHS Bibliography and London’s Past Online from 1 January 2010, has been updated. There are 3,000 additional titles and some problems with the geographical and subject indexing of...

Too many Shakespeare biographies?

Radio 4’s Today programme (08:57) discussed the recent conference celebrating the 1709 biography of Shakespeare by Nicholas Rowe. How many studies of Shakespeare are there? From the RHS Bibliography there are 780 references, everything from Rowe’s...

Free trials of the new Bibliography of British and Irish History

The Bibliography of British and Irish History, a partnership between the Royal Historical Society, the Institute of Historical Research, and Brepols Publishers, will replace the Royal Historical Society Bibliography on 1 January 2010. Free trials of the new...

New journals added to RHS Bibliography search list

Currently 612 journals are checked regularly for material relevant to the Bibliography. The Routledge journal Sport in History has been added to the list of those regularly searched titles. Recent special issues of the journal have covered topics such as the British...