The Bibliography of British and Irish History provides information about books, journal articles and other writing about the British Isles, British Empire and Commonwealth, from 55BC to the present.

For historians of British and Irish history, it is an excellent bibliography of scholarly source material. Some records also contain links to additional material at The National Archives and in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as well as links to the CCCU library collection.

  • Go to LibrarySearch 

  • Log in using your CCCU username and password. If you are away from campus, or connecting with your own device over Wi-Fi, you will need to include @canterbury.ac.uk after your CCCU username.

  • Select Find Databases A-Z, then click on B for Bibliography of British and Irish History, finally click on the link to the database to open it in a new tab.
  • Watch the video below

  • You can export your results into an excel spreadsheet (.xls) or into a RIS (.ris) file which can be uploaded into a reference management tool such as Refworks.
  1. Search for Agriculture and limit to 1500-1600.

  2. Think about how you might add in additional terms to narrow your results further e.g. types of farming, a geographical location etc.

  3. Click on one of the items and look at the subject tree to give you further clues about additional terms that you can use to narrow your search.

Unfortunately, the Bibliography of British and Irish History (Brepolis) does not have an accessibility statement.

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