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The Royal Historical Society's Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of books and articles on historical topics published in a single calendar year. It is available before the end of the following year, and is an indispensable toolfor historians. The volume is divided into sections to cover periods of British and Irish history from Roman Britain to the late twentieth century and includes works on imperial and commonwealth history. Over two hundred journals are searched annually and the aim of the editors is to list allrelevant books and articles published in the U.K. The editors have established a comprehensive and continuing computer database, which facilitates rapid publication in volume form and enables access to this invaluable body of information in a variety of ways. The book's contents are indexed byauthor, place, personal name, and subject. The subject keywords enable scholars to trace publications in which they are interested, beyond the information conveyed in the title.