British Catholic History
British Catholic History is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Catholic Record Society. The journal covers the study of Catholic history in the British Isles.[1][2] The editor-in-chief is Katy Gibbons (University of Portsmouth).
| Discipline | Biography, church history |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Katy Gibbons |
| Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Biographical Studies of English Catholics, Recusant History |
| History | 1951-present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Biannual |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Br. Cathol. Hist. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0034-1932 (print) 2055-7981 (web) |
| LCCN | 65001062 |
| OCLC no. | 1624181 |
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History
The journal was established in 1951 under the title Biographical Studies of English Catholics,[3] under the editorship of A. F. Allison (British Library) and D. M. Rogers (Bodleian Library). With volume 5 (1959) the title was changed to Recusant History: A Journal of Research in Post-Reformation Catholic History in the British Isles, a reference to recusancy as a defining characteristic of early modern English Catholicism and a move away from the more strictly biographical focus of the early issues. It obtained its current title in 2015 with the switch to Cambridge University Press.
References
- Salzman, Michael G. (2003). The World of Learning 2004. New York: Routledge. p. 1722. ISBN 1-85743-182-0.
- Miola, Robert S. (2007). Early modern Catholicism: an anthology of primary sources. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-19-925985-4.
- Kennedy, Arthur Garfield (1960). A Concise Bibliography for Students of English (4th ed.). Stanford University Press. p. 180.