The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is the most comprehensive and accurate online resource to what’s written about British and Irish history. As a benefit of membership, Fellows and Members of the Royal Historical Society receive substantial reductions on personal online subscriptions to this resource.
Annual BBIH access for RHS Fellows begins at £25 per person pa. Full subscription years run from January each year. Invitations to Fellows and Members to take out a 12-month subscription to BBIH, from January 2027, are now invited.
At 4pm GMT, Thursday 5 November, Fellows and Members of the Society are invited to a short online Introduction to the Bibliography of British and Irish History, hosted by its Editor, Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal and Academic Director, Professor Roey Sweet.
This session will guide you through BBIH’s key features, and new design and functionality, to ensure users make the most of this valuable resource for teaching, researching and studying British and Irish history.
Further details of this 15-20 minute webinar are available here, from the Bibliography’s publisher Brepols.
About the Bibliography of British and Irish History
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is the most comprehensive and accurate online resource to what’s written about British and Irish history.
- contains over 680,000 records of books, edited collections, journal articles and book chapters
- includes details of history publications from the early 1900s to present
- covers the domestic history of the British Isles, the former empire and Commonwealth and the global histories of the British and Irish worlds
- can be used to research, teach and study interdisciplinary and emerging areas within the history discipline
- is searchable via a range of options. These include: author, title of publication, subject area, period and places covered, publication type and date/s of publication.
- is compiled and edited by specialist historians, with three annual updates of 10,000+ new records per year
This makes BBIH an essential resource for historians researching, teaching and studying the local histories of the British Isles and Ireland and the wider histories of the British and Irish worlds from 55BCE to the present day.
The Bibliography is edited and published by the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and Brepols.
Fellows and Members of the Society, who wish to take out a personal subscription to BBIH, should email [email protected] and mark your email ‘BBIH’.