Practical Guide to Studying History

Tracey Loughran is Professor of History at the University of Essex, UK. She is the author of Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain (2017).

This lucid and engaging guide to producing and consuming history should be required reading for history undergraduates (and their teachers). In clear and accessible prose, it explains the latest methodological approaches and debates and serves as a practical handbook to reading, researching, and writing history. The book also follows history into the world beyond the university, with thoughtful chapters on different forms of public or popular history. Each chapter is written by an active practitioner of history, and is based on the most up-to-date scholarship and illuminating case studies.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction - Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University, UK)Part I: Framing HistoriesIntroduction: Frameworks and Perspectives - Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University, UK)1. Nations – Mark Williams (Cardiff University, UK)2. Periodization - Shaun Tougher (Cardiff University, UK)3. Comparative Histories - Chiara Beccalossi (University of Lincoln, UK)4. Biography - Toby Thacker (Cardiff University, UK)5. People's History - Martin Wright (Cardiff University, UK)6. Identities - Siobhan McGurk (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)Part II: The Historian's CraftIntroduction - Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University, UK)7. Historical Research - Garthine Walker (Cardiff University, UK)8. Evidence and Interpretation - Kevin Passmore (Cardiff University, UK)9. Archives - Federica Ferlanti (Cardiff University, UK)10. Documents, Editions and Translations - Helen J. Nicholson (Cardiff University, UK)11. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Sources for Essays - Keir Waddington (Cardiff University, UK)12. Reading and Writing History - Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University, UK)Part III: History in PublicIntroduction - Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University, UK)13. History in Schools - Lloyd Bowen (Cardiff University, UK)14. History and Policy - Matthew Grant (University of Essex, UK)15. Historical Novels - Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University, UK)16. History and Heritage - Stephanie Ward (Cardiff University, UK)17. Exhibiting History - Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)18. Taking History into the World - Dave Wyatt (Cardiff University, UK)Index