Dear all,
I would like to annouce that the Royal Historical Society
Bibliography on British History is now freely available over the
internet at www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl. A brief account of the features of
the bibliography follows; you might care to bring it to the attention of
your users, perhaps by including links to it on your web site.
We hope in the next phase of the project to develop cross-searching
facilities with the National Register of Archives and the New
Dictionary of National Biography.
The on-line database will be updated with a further 8,500 records
covering the publications of 2001 in the autumn.
Features of the Bibliography:
· a database of 300,000 records, by far the most complete online
bibliographical resource on British and Irish history, including
relations with the empire and Commonwealth;
· an essential resource for those drawing up bibliographies in
British and Irish history for any purpose from writing undergraduate
essays to preparation of course syllabi and advanced research;
· includes books, articles in journals, articles in collective
volumes, and review articles;
· covers British and Irish history from the earliest periods for
which written evidence survives to the present;
· near-comprehensive coverage of works published since 1900, and
select earlier works;
· includes works published in 2000, and will be up-dated regularly;
· searching by author, title, and date of publication for all
records;
· for post-1945 publications, searching by subject can be combined
with searches by period covered, by place, or by personal name to
create bibliographies on any subject large or small ;
· use of standardised hierarchical subject and place indexes for post-
1992 records.
The Royal Historical Society is grateful to the following
organisations for financial support for this project: the Arts and
Humanities Research Board, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the
Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Esmée Fairbairn Trust, the Newton Trust, and
the University of Cambridge. The project is now hosted by the Institute of
Historical Research. Free on-line access to the data is made possible by
the kind permission of Oxford University Press.
Best Wishes,
Ian Archer
General Editor
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