II
Works of Reference

A collection of useful bibliographical articles has been pub-
lished as a single, somewhat uneven, volume.1 Read's well-
known Tudor bibliography has appeared in a second edition,
twice the length of the first and covering down to I956;2 a
further ten years' yield is added in the first of a handier and
more concise bibliographical series.3 No one has served the
seventeenth century since the war; for the eighteenth, we pos-
sess the comprehensive work of Pargellis and Medley (funda-
mental but already sadly out of date),4 an exhaustive volume
for less than thirty years of domestic and imperial history,5 and
a massive list of contemporary writings on economic matters.6
The supposedly annual volumes in which Milne means to
cover current publications for the whole of British history have
so far attained only the year I945*7 They started in 1933;
Mullins provides information on periodical publication down

1 Elizabeth G. Furber, ed., Changing Views on British History: essays
on historical writing since 1939. C. (Mass.): Harvard UP: 1966. Pp.
xii, 418.

2 Conyers Read, ed., Bibliography of British History: Tudor Period. 2nd
ed. O: Clarendon: 1959. Pp. xxviii, 624, Rev: EHR 75, 72if.

3 Mortimer Levine, ed., Bibliographical Handbooks: Tudor England,
1485-1603. CUP: 1968. Pp. xii, 115.

4 Stanley Pargellis and D. J. Medley, eds., Bibliography of British
History: the Eighteenth Century 1714-178$. O: Clarendon: 1951. Pp.
xxvi, 642.

5 L. H. Gipson, ed., Bibliographical Guide to the History of the British
Empire, 1748-1776. New York: Knopf: 1969. Pp. xxiii, 478,1.

6 L. W. Hanson, ed., Contemporary Printed Sources for British and Irish
Economic History, 1701 -1750. CUP: 1963. Pp. xxiv, 978. Rev: EHR
80, 846f.

7 A. Taylor Milne, ed., Writings on British History, 1938; Writings on
British History, 1939; Writings on British History, 1940-45 (z vols.).
L: Cape: 1951, 1953, 1960. Pp. 333, 310, 1021.