| Discipline | Biography,church history |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Katy Gibbons |
| Publication details | |
Former names | Biographical Studies of English Catholics, Recusant History |
| History | 1951-present |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press on behalf of theCatholic Record Society (United Kingdom) |
| Frequency | Biannual |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Br. Cathol. Hist. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0034-1932 (print) 2055-7981 (web) |
| LCCN | 65001062 |
| OCLC no. | 1624181 |
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British Catholic History is a biannualpeer-reviewedacademic journal published byCambridge University Press on behalf of theCatholic Record Society. In its early years it was known asBiographical Studies of English Catholics, and from 1959 to 2015 asRecusant History.
The journal covers the study of theRoman Catholic Church in the British Isles.[1][2] Theeditor-in-chief is Katy Gibbons (University of Portsmouth).
The journal was established in 1951 under the titleBiographical Studies of English Catholics,[3] under the editorship of A. F. Allison (British Library) andD. M. Rogers (Bodleian Library). With volume 5 (1959) the title was changed toRecusant History: A Journal of Research in Post-Reformation Catholic History in the British Isles, a reference torecusancy as a defining characteristic of early modern EnglishCatholicism 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.