Bibliographies and guides to sources
- Bailey, R. M., Scottish Architects' Papers: a source book
(1996).
- The Bibliography of British and Irish History replaced
The Royal Historical Society Bibliography on 1 January 2010,
and became a subscription service via Brepols Publishers, but the Irish
material is available free at Irish History Online (see
below).
- The British and Irish
Archaeological Bibliography covers publications (books and
articles) from 1695 to the present day on archaeology and historic
buildings.
- Colvin, H.M., English Architectural History: A Guide to the
Sources, 2nd edn. (1976).
- Curl, J.S., A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape
Architecture, 2nd edn. (2006). All entries include a bibliography.
Available online via Oxford
Reference Online to those who have access via their local public
library card.
- Fleming, J., Honour, H., and Pevsner, N., The Penguin Dictionary of
Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2000). Illustrated and
includes bibliography.
- Hall, R. de Zouche,
Bibliography of Vernacular Architecture (1972).
- Harris, E., British Architectural
Books and Writers 1556-1785 (1990).
- Irish History
Online: a huge database of bibliographic records to what has
been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present.
- Kamen, R.H., British and Irish Architectural History: a
bibliography and guide to sources of information (RIBA 1981).
- Keynes, S., Anglo-Saxon England: a Bibliographical Handbook for
Students of Anglo-Saxon History, 5th ed. (October 2004).
- London's Past online: a
bibliography of London history produced by the Centre for Metropolitan
History in association with the Royal Historical Society Bibliography.
- Planning Architecture Design
Database Ireland PADDI is an online bibliographic database on
all aspects of the built environment and environmental planning in Ireland,
north and south. Indexed material includes items published from c.1865 to
the present, covering buildings dating from the 12th century to the
present.
- Sources: A National Library of
Ireland database for Irish research: contains over 180,000
catalogue records for Irish manuscripts, and for articles in over 150 Irish
periodicals up to 1969. This includes all of the National Library's
manuscripts catalogued up to the 1980s and Irish manuscripts held in other
libraries and archives in Ireland and worldwide, listed between the 1940s
and the 1970s. This represents a digitisation of Manuscript Sources
for the History of Irish Civilisation (1965, and supplement 1975)
and Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation: Articles in Irish
Periodicals (1970).
- For bibliographies of a specific building type - see the page on that building type.
- For bibliographies of the architecture a specific period or style - see
the page on that period or style.
- For bibliographies of specific topics - see the left-hand menu and the
main menu.
Texts and calendars
- Anderson, A.O., Early Sources of Scottish History
A.D.500-1286, 2 vols, 2nd edn (1990).
- Davis, G.R.C., Medieval Cartularies of Great
Britain: a short catalogue (1958) is a guide to published and MS
cartularies, generally monastic. Amendments and addenda were published in
the annual Monastic
Research Bulletin from no 2 (1996), which contributed to the 2nd
edition below:
- Davis, G.R.C., revised by C. Breay, J. Harrison and D.M. Smith,
Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland (2010).
- Irish Manuscripts Commission, Catalogue of
Publications Issued and in Preparation 1928-1962 (1966). Later
publications are listed online by the Irish
Manuscripts Commission.
- Mullins, E.L.C., Texts and Calendars: an
analytical guide to serial publications, 2 vols (1958, 1983) covers
the national (UK and pre-independence Ireland) and local (England and
Wales) record series. Online
updated version by the Royal Historical Society in progress.
- Stevenson, D. and W., Scottish Texts and
Calendars (1987). Online
updated version by the Royal Historical Society in progress.