British Catholic History

Aims & Scope

British Catholic History (formerly titled Recusant History) acts as a forum for innovative, vibrant, transnational, inter-disciplinary scholarship resulting from research on the history of British and Irish Catholicism at home and throughout the world.

BCH publishes peer-reviewed original research articles, review articles and shorter reviews of works on all aspects of British and Irish Catholic history from the 15th Century up to the present day.

Central to our publishing policy is an emphasis on the multi-faceted, national and international dimensions of British Catholic history, which provide both readers and authors with a uniquely interesting lens through which to examine British and Atlantic history.

The journal welcomes contributions on all approaches to the Catholic experience.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	0.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.142

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	25131

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	6

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Building libraries in exile: The English convents and their book collections in the seventeenth century

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Caroline

• Authority, gender, and monastic piety: controversies at the English Benedictine convent in Brussels, 1620–1623

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Jaime

• The Tixall circle and the musical life of St Monica’s, Louvain

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Jane

• Expressing Selfhood in the Convent: Anonymous Chronicling and Subsumed Autobiography

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Victoria

• ‘The writings of querulous women’: contraception, conscience and clerical authority in 1960s Britain

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Alana

• Recognising the archpriest: seeking clarification or fomenting schism?

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Thomas M.

• Relics, writing, and memory in the English Counter Reformation: Thomas Maxfield and his afterlives

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Alexandra

• Missioners on the Margins? The Territorial Headquarters of the Welsh Jesuit College of St Francis Xavier at The Cwm, c.1600–1679

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Hannah

• Negotiating religious change and conflict: Female religious communities in early modern Ireland,<i>c</i>.1530–<i>c</i>.1641

  Citation: 3

  Authors: Bronagh A.

• Robert Gwyn and Robert Persons: Welsh and English Perspectives on Attendance at Anglican Service

  Citation: 2

  Authors: James

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