Aims & Scope

The Bibliography of British and Irish History provides online access to bibliographic data on published works about the UK, Ireland, the British empire, and Commonwealth. It covers interdisciplinary areas such as race, gender, social class, disability, mental health, environmental history, and the history of emotions. The BBIH includes works from 55BC to the present, totaling 660,000+ records and offers links to online catalogues and full-text sources. It encompasses books, book chapters, journal articles, and some history PhD theses from 800 journals and book series.

Coverage

The list of journals and book series that are actively monitored by BBIH can be found here.

Partners

Compiled and edited by specialist bibliographers and historians at the University of London, BBIH is a research and publishing project of the UK’s Institute of Historical Research, and the Belgian academic press, Brepols.

Key Features

• Includes records from partner projects: London’s Past Online and Irish History Online
• Bibliographical data drawn from many sources, including (by kind permission of the British Library) their electronic table of contents database and the British National Bibliography
• Incorporates books, journal articles (print and electronic), review articles, chapters in edited collections and some history PhD theses.
• Several export formats (EndNote, Zotero, RefWorks, Microsoft Office Word)
• A metrics component enables users to examine in detail trends in British and Irish history, see journal profiles (e.g. information on subjects and periods covered), and find authors’ publication profiles.
• BBIH links to library catalogues, Jisc Library Hub Discover and WorldCat (via Google Books)
• Learn more about people in BBIH records by using the integrated links with the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the National Register of Archives and Who Was Who
• Also including links to British History Online, Reviews in History, and H-Albion Reviews