Introduction to the Bibliography of British and Irish History

A partnership between the Institute of Historical Research, the Royal Historical Society and Brepols Publishers

• Current editorial team
• Scope and aims
• Project history
• Partner projects
  • Irish History Online
  • London's Past Online
  • Scottish Historical Review Trust
• Subject classification
• Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Editors of contributory works
• Contact and feedback to editorial team
• Contact Brepols Publishers

Current editorial team

Academic editor: Professor Stephen Taylor, University of Reading

Publishing/technical editor: Dr Jane Winters, Institute of Historical Research

Editors: Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and Peter Salt, Institute of Historical Research

Section editors

All editors, except for those marked with an asterisk, previously worked on the RHS Bibliography of British and Irish history

Other contributors

Dr Keith Manley, formerly a librarian at the Institute of Historical Research and now a Fellow of the IHR, continues generously to assist in the collection of information about journals received by the IHR.

We would also like to thank interns working in the IHR (many of them under a scheme organized by Anglo-American Educational Services), in particular Elizabeth Young, Danielle Davis, Jill Howard and Michael Lazenby, for the help that they have given with the Bibliography.

We are also grateful to staff at the Guildhall Library in the City of London for help in identifying new publications on the history of London.

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Scope and aims

• General
• Sources
• Indexing

General

The Bibliography of British and Irish History provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. It is the successor to the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History, available online from 2002 to 2009.

As well as providing details of publications, the Bibliography provides links to help you find the items that it lists in research libraries, and it provides links to online text where available (you or your institution may need an appropriate subscription to take advantage of some of these links).

The Bibliography is a guide to the work of historians - it does not contain original sources, unless they have been edited and republished by historians (except for a selection of key sources published before 1901 derived from the printed bibliographies published for the Royal Historical Society and the American Historical Association by Oxford University Press).

The Bibliography aims to be as comprehensive as is practical for publications since 1900 and has been enriched by co-operation with other projects. Data from the London's Past Online project were added to the database in January 2003 and the first batch of data from Irish History Online was added in August 2004, with further batches from both projects being added later. From the end of 2006 the Bibliography has co-operated with teams working under the auspices of the Scottish Historical Review Trust which will henceforth edit the primarily Scottish titles in the database. The complete database now contains nearly 514,000 records.

The Bibliography lists books, articles in books and articles in journals. 739 journals and series are currently searched systematically for material relevant to the Bibliography and subscribers can consult a list of these journals and series (when the link opens, make sure that the "Currently searched systematically for relevant material" option is selected). However, material from many other journals and series is included as and when it comes to light. Electronic journals will be included if they meet at least three of the following criteria:

• Editorial board includes well-known scholars in the field or demonstrates association with a university department;
• Scholarly content;
• Published regularly, or with reasonable frequency;
• Submissions are refereed.

We welcome recommendations from users for journals that might be included.

Material is included irrespective of place or language of publication, although coverage is best for works published in Britain (and in Ireland during 1936-2006, the dates of publication comprehensively covered by Irish History Online during our co-operation with them).

There are some limitations on content:

• The coverage of Imperial and Commonwealth history is not intended to provide a complete bibliography for the history of countries within the Empire or Commonwealth, but to provide a guide to writing on their relations with Britain. Read more …
• We include material about recent events, but we try to make sure that it is historical in approach. Read more …
• Although much was done during the compilation of the CD-ROM to extend the coverage of Irish history provided by the bibliographies on which the project was based, the coverage of the history of Ireland remained less complete than that for England, Scotland and Wales. However, coverage of Irish history was much improved after 2004 as a result of co-operation between the Royal Historical Society Bibliography and Irish History Online. As a result, all titles from Writings on Irish History for 1936-2006 are now included in BBIH. Following Irish History Online's establishment of a separate database at the start of 2010, BBIH is now compiling its own records for more recent titles on Irish history; we will not be able to cover all the local journals that were included in Irish History Online and users may notice some inconsistencies in coverage, especially in the short term. In the longer term, we hope to establish a new record exchange arrangement with Irish History Online.
• The Bibliography aims to list new editions, but not reprints or paperback editions when the content is unchanged; collections of reprinted essays are included but their contents are not generally listed separately. Reprints of older works are listed when new scholarly material has been included (for example, in the form of a new introduction).
• Review articles are included, but not reviews of individual works unless they are presented as articles in their own right. However, we provide hyperlinks to online reviews published by the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History, by H-Albion, by CERCLES: Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone and (from May 2010) by EH.net.
• Works aimed primarily at children and school pupils are excluded. (Prior to 2003, the policy was to exclude works aimed at those under 16: i.e., in an English context, those aimed at pupils up to and including Year 11.)
• The Bibliography does not aim to include works on technical topics if they are intended primarily to appeal to enthusiasts in a particular area, and not to contribute to broader historical understanding: hence, for example, technical works on transport history, and works aimed primarily at collectors dealing with topics such as the decorative arts, postage stamps or coins, may be excluded.
• The Bibliography contains unpublished theses on London history, but unpublished theses are not otherwise included in the database.

Sources

The database contains:

• pre-1901 publications from the bibliographies published by Oxford University Press in association with the Royal Historical Society and the American Historical Association, i.e.
  • Edgar B. Graves (ed.), A bibliography of English history to 1485 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1975)
  • Conyers Read (ed.), Bibliography of British history: Tudor period, 1485-1603, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1959)
  • Godfrey Davies (ed.), Bibliography of British history: Stuart period, 1603-1714, 2nd edn., rev. Mary Frear Keeler (Oxford: Clarendon, 1970)
  • Stanley Pargellis; D.J. Medley (ed.), Bibliography of British history: The eighteenth century, 1714-1789 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1951)
  • Lucy M. Brown; I.R. Christie (ed.), Bibliography of British history: 1789-1851 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1977)
  • H.J. Hanham (comp. and ed.), Bibliography of British history: 1851-1914 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1976)
• as well as keeping the database up-to-date with information about new publications, we have added many earlier titles which did not appear in the printed bibliographies, especially on Imperial and Commonwealth history, Irish history and women's history.
• the database therefore includes all titles included in The Royal Historical Society Bibliography on CD-ROM (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) (with the exception of unpublished theses), along with much new material.

The database also includes the contents of Heather Creaton's Bibliography of printed works on London history to 1939 (London: Library Association Publishing Ltd, 1994) and the bibliography from her Sources for the history of London, 1939-45 (London: British Records Association, 1998). These were placed online by the London's Past Online project, along with supplementary records, previously unpublished, covering publications on London's history since 1945 and publications that have appeared since the completion of Heather Creaton's books. In 2005-6, titles from the Bibliography of the Archaeology of Greater London were added, providing an additional dimension to the coverage of the capital's past (however, very brief pieces contained in BAGL, including minutes of archaeological bodies, or reports of visits, have not been included in the online bibliography).

In addition, the database includes the contents of the first two Irish History Online projects. These projects have placed online the contents of Writings on Irish History (currently compiled by Máirín Cassidy and Ciaran Nicholson), embracing the Writings for 1936-2006, together with some later publications, and therefore including all material previously published in the printed or microfiche editions of Writings on Irish History, as well as records for more recent material not included in those editions. The second Irish History Online project, which ran from 2006 to 2009, also extended coverage of the Irish diaspora (including foreign publications).

Indexing

Hierarchical controlled languages are used to index post-1992 publications by subject and place, and an authority list of personal names is also used; we are mapping the indexing used for pre-1993 publications on to these lists, although this process is still under way and subject searches will consequently give useful but not necessarily complete results for pre-1993 publications. Read more on the subject classification scheme …

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Project history

• Early years and Writings on British History, 1933-74
• Annual Bibliographies, 1975-2002
• Cumulative CD-ROM
• RHS Bibliography of British and Irish History online, 2002-9
• Bibliography of British and Irish History, 2010-

A fuller account of the Royal Historical Society's and Institute of Historical Research's contribution to the development of bibliographies of British history up to 2009 can be found in the article by Ian Archer on the Institute's Making History website.

Early years and Writings on British History, 1901-74

The Royal Historical Society (RHS) has been involved with the production of bibliographies of British and Irish history for a century, taking its first formal step in 1909, when a committee was set up to liaise with the American Historical Association on the production of a series of printed bibliographies. The first volume did not appear until 1928 and the volume in the series covering twentieth-century history was not published until 1996, but meanwhile the RHS, helped by a legacy from Sir George Prothero, had begun to pursue a new direction with the publication, in 1937, of Writings on British History 1934, listing publications appearing in that year. Volumes on publications of the later 1930s followed in due course. The Institute of Historical Research took responsibility for the volumes covering publications of 1946 onward and funding was obtained for retrospective coverage of 1901-33 publications so that, by 1986, volumes covering publications of 1901-74 had been produced.

Annual Bibliographies, 1975-2002

In the preface to the first volume of Writings on British History F.M. Powicke wrote of the 'intention to include all books and articles of any value for British history', even 'at the risk of some triviality'. The price of such thoroughness was that the Writings appeared increasingly in arrear. The result was a drive, led by Sir Geoffrey Elton, to produce lists more quickly, enlisting the aid of a team of academics, each dealing with his or her period of interest. The resulting Annual Bibliographies of British and Irish History were produced by the RHS, in conjunction with the Institute of Historical Research, from 1975 to 2002. The new title reflected the inclusion of Irish domestic history for the first time, and coverage was also expanded to include the Roman period and more information about articles in miscellany volumes such as conference proceedings and Festschriften. Nonetheless, each volume appeared within ten months of the close of the calendar year whose publications it covered.

As it became clear that the Annuals would replace the Writings, so the volumes became more comprehensive. As a result of this, and of the expansion of historical publishing, the Annuals grew considerably. While the 1975 Annual contained just over 2,000 records, the 2002 volume contained 11,238 titles, including 7,150 articles. However, computerisation and the employment of a dedicated editor for each volume (the task being undertaken by Austin Gee for the volumes for 1995 onwards) meant that the publishing schedule envisaged by Geoffrey Elton was maintained.

Nonetheless, the RHS decided in 2003 to cease publication of the printed Annuals in order to concentrate resources on the online edition. This allowed material to be published even more speedily.

Cumulative CD-ROM

In 1998 Oxford University Press published the first version of the Royal Historical Society's electronic database, The Royal Historical Society Bibliography on CD-ROM: The History of Britain, Ireland, and the British Overseas. The culmination of a six-year project, involving a large team of scholars directed by John Morrill, and largely funded by the Leverhulme Trust, it consolidated over 50 existing printed bibliographies (including all the Writings on British History volumes and the Annual Bibliographies for 1975-92), added much new material on Irish and Imperial and Commonwealth history, and considerably enhanced the existing indexing. The result was a database of approximately 250,000 records detailing most of the books and articles published between 1901 and 1992, and many from before then.

RHS Bibliography of British and Irish History online, 2002-9

Following the project's move to the Institute of Historical Research, a new online edition of the database was published in July 2002, and was subsequently updated regularly, so that it contained over 460,000 titles by late 2009. It incorporated not only the contents of the CD-ROM, but also those of the Annual Bibliographies for 1993-2002, as well as subsequent updates. In addition to the printed material covered by the Annual Bibliographies the project began to include some electronic journals, and OpenURL was used to provide links to online full text of print publications and to online reviews where available.

Online publication facilitated co-operation with other projects. Records from London's Past Online, a bibliography of the history of the London area, were added at the start of 2003: see our section on partner projects for more information.

From October 2003, the RHS Bibliography also began to co-operate closely with Irish History Online, which became the Irish component of the RHS Bibliography of British and Irish History, offering more comprehensive coverage of publications on Irish history. More information is again available by viewing our section on partner projects.

From late 2006 the Bibliography worked with teams operating under the auspices of the Scottish Historical Review Trust which took over the editing of the primarily Scottish titles contained in the Bibliography, and which generated some of the new titles on Scottish history. Once again, more information is available by viewing our section on partner projects.

A major aim of the online edition was to improve the effectiveness and consistency with which data could be searched, and for this purpose a comprehensive hierarchical scheme of subject-indexing terms was prepared. This scheme was based on the thematic structure that was used in the Annual Bibliographies; it was used for indexing all publications of 1993 and later, and was adopted by Irish History Online; it was also gradually applied to earlier publications where possible, mostly by mapping on to the new scheme the earlier non-controlled indexing terms used for the CD-ROM.

Bibliography of British and Irish History, 2010-

To provide a secure long-term future for the Bibliography, the RHS and IHR entered into a partnership with Brepols Publishers at the end of 2009 to continue the Bibliography as a subscription service under a new title: Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). The Bibliography also acquired a new interface incorporating several new features, including auto-complete lists and enhanced export facilities, as well as offering considerably faster searching. In other respects, BBIH continues the practices and features developed in the compilation of the Annual Bibliographies and of the online RHS Bibliography. Entries are published as rapidly as possible, but are also reviewed by a team of expert academic section editors to ensure that the Bibliography remains attuned to scholars' needs. Linkage to online text and to library catalogues is provided wherever possible, and can be customised according to the user's location. BBIH also continues to use the classification scheme devised for the RHS Bibliography.

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Partner projects

• Irish History Online
• London's Past Online
• Scottish Historical Review Trust

Irish History Online

Irish History Online was established by means of a projects grant from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2003-6) with the aim of producing an online version of Writings on Irish History, listing publications on Irish history from 1936 onwards and previously published in print and microfiche. A second projects grant from the IRCHSS (2006-9) enabled the project to enhance its coverage of 'the Irish abroad' and to keep all the material updated. Both phases were based at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. The editorial and inputting team that worked on the first phase of the project were Anthony McCormack and Mary Murray. The second phase was edited by Frank Cullen, with some part-time assistance from Mary Murray. For the duration of the whole project, the compilers, who work on an essentially voluntary basis, have been Máirín Cassidy and Ciaran Nicholson. Those involved as associate investigators have been Ian Archer, Bernadette Cunningham, Mary O'Dowd, Patrick Fitzgerald, Kerby Miller, Peter Solar and Thomas O'Connor. In addition to the editors, compilers and Dublin-based investigators, James McGuire also served on the editorial committee during phase 1 of the project. We are grateful to all for their invaluable input, as well as to Peter Salt and Simon Baker of the Royal Historical Society Bibliography team for their visits to NUI Maynooth to help get the project running smoothly.

IHO formed from 2004 to 2009 the Irish component of the RHS Bibliography of British and Irish History. Its data were designed to complement, and could be searched seamlessly with, the records on Irish history compiled by the RHS Bibliography, giving a total of nearly 70,000 fully searchable bibliographical records relating to Irish history by late 2009.

Following the expiry of its second phase of funding, IHO has relocated to the Royal Irish Academy, where it will be kept up to date by volunteer editors and compilers, remaining free to users. However, all the data relating to Irish history accumulated by the first and second IHO projects and the RHS Bibliography will be included both in the new IHO and in BBIH, and the two projects hope to continue to co-operate in record collection.

Jacqueline Hill
Principal Investigator,
Irish History Online,
Department of History,
NUI, Maynooth.

London's Past Online

The London's Past Online project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Resource Enhancement Scheme (award no. RE/AN8717/APN13604) between 2002 and 2004 to create a fully searchable, online bibliography of published material relating to the history of Greater London. The project was managed by David Tomkins (Research Editor) and Eileen Sanderson (Assistant Research Editor), working under the general editorship of Heather Creaton, former Deputy Director of the Centre for Metropolitan History at the Institute of Historical Research.

Core data for the project was taken from Heather Creaton's Bibliography of Printed Works on London History to 1939 (London: Library Association Publishing Ltd, 1994) and its unpublished supplement, and the bibliography from her Sources for the History of London, 1939-45 (London, British Records Association, 1998). From the beginning the project was closely linked with work on the RHS Bibliography: the records were edited as necessary and the subject and person details were mapped to correspond with the RHS Bibliography’s controlled vocabulary indexes. Relevant books, articles, theses and conference papers that had appeared since the publication of Bibliography of Printed Works on London History to 1939 and Sources for the History of London, 1939-45 were identified and added, and the historical coverage extended to the present day.

In 2005-6 generous additional funding from the Mercers' Company and the Goldsmiths' Company enabled the incorporation of archaeological references from the Bibliography of the Archaeology of Greater London (BAGL), with the exception of minutes of archaeological bodies and reports of visits. This material provides a significant additional dimension to the coverage of the capital’s past.

The data, which ultimately comprised 31,000 records, first went online towards the end of 2002 and could be searched in combination with relevant RHS Bibliography records that had been tagged as relating to London, giving an overall total of 42,000 records on London history by late 2009. BBIH, as the successor to the RHS Bibliography, incorporates all this London material.

More about the project can be found at http://www.history.ac.uk/projects/londons-past-online

Dr Matthew Davies
Director
Centre for Metropolitan History
Institute of Historical Research

Scottish Historical Review Trust

Since late 2006 the Bibliography has worked with teams operating under the auspices of the Scottish Historical Review Trust which have taken over the editing of the primarily Scottish titles contained in the Bibliography, and which generate some of the new titles on Scottish history. Initially this work was carried out at Stirling University, but it was taken over by a team at St Andrews University in November 2008. This co-operation with the Scottish Historical Review Trust has enhanced the coverage of Scottish history in the Bibliography, as well as providing a richer, more user-friendly and more frequently updated bibliography of Scottish history than that previously available in the Scottish Historical Review's printed lists of new articles. Data compiled by the Scottish Historical Review Trust can be searched seamlessly with the data generated by the RHS/IHR project.

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Subject classification

A subject classification and a hierarchical vocabulary of keywords have been devised to assist in the indexing of material added to the Bibliography. In the online version this scheme is used for indexing all post-1992 publications and an increasing number of earlier ones.

You can search or browse the classification scheme while carrying out a search of the Bibliography. On the opening page, select Advanced search and then, under Subject search, click on All subjects next to Subject tree. You will then see a display of the principal areas into which the subject tree has been divided.

• Searches are generic - when you enter a term, the system automatically searches for all terms located below it in the hierarchy.
• To browse a hierarchical display of the contents of each category, click on the category heading. You can continue to click on terms, if you wish, to display further stages in the tree, until you reach the level of detail in which you are interested. Generally speaking, the higher level terms will give the most consistent results.
• You can also search the tree for a particular term, using the search box at the top of the window. It is best to truncate your term - e.g. if you are interested in 'Agriculture', try entering 'Agricultur' and you will see terms containing the word 'Agricultural' as well as those containing 'Agriculture'.
• To select a term to use in your search of the Bibliography, click the check box to the left of the term. Your term is now added to the list at the top of the window.
• You can select further terms to include in your search if you wish. By default, if you selected more than one term, they are linked with 'OR', which means that your search will return records that contain any of the selected terms. However, you can use the radio buttons at the top of the window to change this to 'AND', so that your search will return only records that contain all your selected terms in combination.
• Insert your selected terms into the search form by clicking on Insert/Close.

A video tutorial on using the subject tree is also available.

Suggestions for additions and amendments to the indexing scheme are welcome; please email us.

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Acknowledgements

Funding

Core support for the project is provided by the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of Historical Research.

Prior to the partnership with Brepols and the launch of BBIH at the start of 2010, the online Royal Historical Society Bibliography was supported by grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (previously the Arts and Humanities Research Board).

The intensive six-year project which produced the first electronic edition (published on CD-ROM in 1998) was made possible by a major grant from the Leverhulme Trust and by support from a number of other bodies including the British Academy.

Other supporters included the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, the Esmée Fairbairn Charitable Trust and the Isaac Newton Trust.

Editors of contributory works

• Project team for RHS Bibliography of British and Irish history, 1997-2009
• Section editors for RHS Bibliography of British and Irish history, 2003-9
• Contributors to the RHS Annual Bibliographies of British and Irish history, 1975-2002
• Contributors to the RHS Bibliography on CD-ROM

Project team for RHS Bibliography of British and Irish history (published online 2002-9):

Section editors for RHS Bibliography of British and Irish history (published online 2002-2009):

Prior to 2003, the new content added to the online edition was largely derived from the RHS Annual Bibliographies of British and Irish History. Section editors listed below with an asterisk also worked for the Annual Bibliographies.

Contributors to the RHS Annual Bibliographies of British and Irish history, 1975-2002:

In 2003, the RHS decided to cease publication of the printed Annual Bibliographies in order to concentrate resources on the online edition. Section editors listed below with an asterisk continued to work for the online edition.

Contributors to the RHS Bibliography on CD-ROM (published 1998):

The creation of the Royal Historical Society Bibliography would have been impossible without the efforts of a large number of scholars. The list below identifies those who were involved in the project, identifying them by their institutional affiliation and status at the time of the appearance of the CD-ROM in 1998.
 

Members of the Executive Board

• Dr John Morrill FBA (General Editor), Selwyn College, Cambridge
• Dr Julian Hoppit (Executive Secretary), University College London
• Ms Margaret Lantry (Edition Manager 1990-6), University College Cork
• Dr David Jarvis (Edition Manager 1990-2), Emmanuel College, Cambridge
• Mr Peter Salt (Edition Manager 1992-6), Institute of Historical Research
• Dr David Cockburn (Assistant Edition Manager, 1995-6)

Members of the Editorial Board

• Prof. F.M.L. Thompson FBA, Institute of Historical Research
• Sir Keith Thomas FBA, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
• Prof. H.C.G. Matthew FBA, St Hugh's College, Oxford
• Prof. R.B. Dobson, Christ's College, Cambridge
• Prof. John Ramsden, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
• Representatives of Oxford University Press

Volume Editors (co-opted members of the Editorial Board)

Volume 1 (pre-1050)

• Dr Ian Wood, University of Leeds
  

  Volume 2 (1050-1500)

• Prof. Ralph Griffiths, University of Wales, Swansea
  

  Volume 3 (1500-1700)

• Prof. John Guy, University of St Andrews [Research Associate 1994-5: Dr Edith Bershadsky]
• Prof. Linda Levy Peck, University of Rochester
• Dr David Smith, Selwyn College, Cambridge
  

  Volume 4 (1700-1815)

• Prof. W.A. Speck, University of Leeds
• Prof. Harry Dickinson, University of Edinburgh
  

  Volume 5 (1815-1914)

• Dr John Stevenson, Worcester College, Oxford [Assistant 1994-6: Dr Hannah Barker]
• Prof. Michael Bentley, University of St Andrews
  

  Volume 6 (since 1914)

• Prof. John Turner, Royal Holloway, London
  

  Volume 7 (Imperial, Colonial and Commonwealth History since 1600)

• Prof. Andrew Porter, King's College London [Research Associate 1991-6: Dr Austin Gee]

Section Editors

Volume 1: pre-1050 Section Editors

• Dr Nancy Edwards, University College of North Wales, Bangor
• Dr Joyce Hill, University of Leeds
• Dr Nicholas Hooper, Bradford Grammar School
• Mr Andrew Lantry
• Ms Margaret Lantry, University College, Cork
• Dr Julian Richards, University of York
• Dr Pauline A. Stafford, University of Huddersfield
• Dr Jane Stevenson, University of Sheffield
• Prof. Ian Wood, University of Leeds

Volume 2: 1050-1500 Section Editors

• Mr Peter Asplin, Glasgow University Library
• Dr Rowena Archer, Manchester College, Oxford
• Prof. Art Cosgrove, University College Dublin
• Dr Richard G. Davies, University of Manchester
• Dr P.J.C. Field, University College of North Wales, Bangor
• Dr Peter Fleming, University of the West of England at Bristol
• Prof. R.A. Griffiths, University of Wales, Swansea
• Dr Anthony Gross
• Dr Helen Jewell, University of Liverpool
• Dr John R. Kenyon, Librarian, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
• Dr Phillip Lindley, University of Leicester
• Mr Terry H. Lloyd, University of Wales, Swansea
• Dr George Molland, University of Aberdeen
• Mr David A.L. Morgan, University College London
• Ms Johanna Procter, University of Wales, Swansea
• Dr David Robinson, CADW: Welsh Historic Monuments
• Prof. Joel T. Rosenthal, State University of New York at Stonybrook
• Dr Norman Reid, Dept of Manuscripts, St Andrews University
• Mr Adrian Wilmott, University of Wales, Swansea

Volume 3: 1500-1700 Section Editors

• Dr Ian Archer, Keble College, Oxford
• Dr Jonathan Barry, University of Exeter
• Dr Edith Bershadsky, Goucher College, Baltimore
• Dr Tom Connors, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
• Prof. S.G. Ellis, University College, Galway
• Prof. Mark Fissel, Ball State University
• Dr Mark Goldie, Churchill College, Cambridge
• Prof. John Guy, University of St Andrews
• Prof. Barbara J. Harris, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Dr Felicity Heal, Jesus College, Oxford
• Prof. Michael Hunter, Birkbeck College, London
• Prof. S.M. Jack, University of Sydney
• Dr A.G. Keller, University of Leicester
• Dr William Kelly, University of Ulster
• Prof. John N. King, Ohio State University, Columbus
• Prof. F.J. Levy, University of Washington, Seattle
• Prof. Linda Levy Peck, University of Rochester and George Washington University
• Prof. Wallace MacCaffrey, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
• Dr John Morrill, Selwyn College, Cambridge
• Dr Craig Muldrew, Wolfson College, Cambridge
• Dr Virginia Murphy, University of Durham
• Dr Jane Ohlmeyer, University of Aberdeen
• Prof. W.R. Prest, University of Adelaide
• Dr John Scally, National Library of Scotland
• Prof. Malcolm Smuts, University of Massachusetts at Boston
• Dr John Spurr, University of Wales, Swansea
• Prof. David Stevenson, University of St Andrews
• Ms Alison Wall, Christchurch, Oxford
• Prof. Glanmor Williams
• Dr Michael Zell, University of Greenwich

Volume 4: 1700-1815 Section Editors

• Dr Michael Barfoot, Medical Archive Centre, University Library, University of Edinburgh
• Prof. J.V. Beckett, University of Nottingham
• Prof. John Childs, University of Leeds
• Dr Tony Claydon, University College of North Wales, Bangor
• Prof. Sean Connolly, The Queen's University, Belfast
• Prof. H.T. Dickinson, University of Edinburgh
• Ms Diana Douglas, University of Leeds
• Prof. J.A. Downie, Goldsmiths College, London
• Dr Austin Gee, Institute of Historical Research
• Dr David Hayton, The Queen's University, Belfast
• Dr Robert Harris, University of Dundee
• Dr Julian Hoppit, University College London
• Dr W.P. Kelly
• Dr Deborah Kemmer, University of Edinburgh
• Dr Roger Knight, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
• Prof. Bruce Lenman, University of St Andrews
• Dr Emma Macleod , University of Stirling
• Ms Barbara May, University of Leeds
• Prof. Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
• Revd Canon D.T.W. Price, St David's University College, Lampeter
• Prof. J.G. Rule, University of Southampton
• Mr Peter Salt, Institute of Historical Research
• Prof. W.A. Speck, University of Leeds
• Dr William Stafford, University of Huddersfield
• Dr Stephen Taylor, University of Reading
• Dr Adrian Wilson, University of Leeds
• Dr David Wilkinson, History of Parliament Trust

Volume 5: 1815-1914 Section Editors

• Dr Hannah Barker, University of Keele
• Prof. Michael Bentley, University of St Andrews
• Dr John Briggs, Keele University
• Prof. Angus Buchanan, University of Bath
• Prof. Muriel Chamberlain, University of Wales, Swansea
• Mr Andrew Croll, University of Wales, Cardiff
• Dr Colin Cunningham, Open University
• Dr Michael Freeman, Worcester College, Oxford
• Dr T.A. Jenkins, University of East Anglia
• Dr Frances Knight, St David's University College, Lampeter
• Dr Michael Lobban, Brunel University
• Dr Alan O'Day, University of North London
• Dr Jonathan Parry, Pembroke College, Cambridge
• Prof. E.D. Steele, University of Leeds
• Dr John Stevenson, Worcester College, Oxford
• Prof. Hew Strachan, University of Glasgow
• Dr Gillian Sutherland, Newnham College, Cambridge
• Dr Neil Tranter, University of Stirling
• Dr Alexis Weedon, University of Luton
• Dr Paul Weindling, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
• Ms Mari Williams, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
• Dr John Wolffe, The Open University

Volume 6: 1914+ Section Editors

• Dr Ian Beckett, University of Luton
• Prof. Kathleen Burk, University College London
• Dr P. Dewey, Royal Holloway, London
• Dr Michael Dockrill, King's College London
• Dr Andrew Lambert, King's College London
• Dr Stuart Mews, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
• Prof. John Turner, Royal Holloway, London

Volume 7: Imperial and Commonwealth Section Editors

• Prof. Judith Brown, Balliol College, Oxford
• Prof. Peter Burroughs
• Dr John Darwin, Nuffield College, Oxford
• Dr Donald Denoon, The Australian National University, Canberra
• Prof. D.W. Harkness, The Queen's University Belfast
• Dr Gad Heuman, University of Warwick
• Dr R.F. Holland, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
• Dr M.R.S. Lynn, The Queen's University Belfast
• Prof. Stuart Macintyre, University of Melbourne
• Dr D.A. McLean, King's College London
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