History through material culture

Leonie Hannan is Research Fellow in Eighteenth-Century History at Queen's University, BelfastSarah Longair is Lecturer in the History of Empire at the University of Lincoln

• Introduction 1 Approaches to the material world 2 Planning a research project 3 Developing a methodology 4 Locating sources: understanding museum collections and other repositories 5 Analysing sources 6 Writing up findings Afterword Index