British Catholic History

British Catholic History
DisciplineBiography, church history
LanguageEnglish
Edited byKaty Gibbons
Publication details
Former name(s)
Biographical Studies of English Catholics, Recusant History
History1951-present
Publisher
Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Catholic Record Society (United Kingdom)
FrequencyBiannual
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Br. Cathol. Hist.
Indexing
ISSN0034-1932 (print)
2055-7981 (web)
LCCN65001062
OCLC no.1624181
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British Catholic History is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Catholic Record Society. In its early years it was known as Biographical Studies of English Catholics, and from 1959 to 2015 as Recusant History.

The journal covers the study of the Roman Catholic Church in the British Isles.[1][2] The editor-in-chief is Katy Gibbons (University of Portsmouth).

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

  1. ^ Salzman, Michael G. (2003). The World of Learning 2004. New York: Routledge. p. 1722. ISBN 1-85743-182-0.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Kennedy, Arthur Garfield (1960). A Concise Bibliography for Students of English (4th ed.). Stanford University Press. p. 180.


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