Becoming a Historian (IHR Shorts): An Informal Guide - Softcover

Corfield, Penelope J.; Hitchcock, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1914477154 ISBN 13: 9781914477157

Publisher: University of London Press, 2022

Synopsis

Writing history is an art and a craft, which can sometimes make it feel intimidating. Becoming a Historian debunks the myths and demystifies the world of research for both research students and independent scholars. It outlines techniques to help design large-scale research projects, demonstrates the difference between quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and provides advice on bringing projects to a positive conclusion, as well as showing how to participate in the scholarly community.

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About the Authors

Penelope J. Corfield is Professor Emeritus of History at Royal Holloway, University of London; Visiting Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Member of the Academia Europaea/ Academy of Europe; and President of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2019- the present). Her publications address British social, cultural and urban history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as general theories of time and history. She gained her own research experience at the Universities of Oxford and London (LSE); she has enjoyed supervising many MA and PhD students; and she welcomes the internationalization of scholarship.

Tim Hitchcock is Professor of Digital History at the University of Sussex and until 2021 was Director of the Sussex Humanities Lab. Prior to this he held posts at the University of North London, and the University of Hertfordshire. He has published a dozen books on the histories of poverty, sexuality, gender and crime focusing on eighteenth-century London. With Robert Shoemaker, and others, he has also been responsible for creating a series of web resources, including the Old Bailey Online, London Lives and Locating London’s Past. His first degree was awarded by the University of California at Berkeley, and he received his doctorate from the University of Oxford.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of London Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1914477154
• ISBN 13: 9781914477157
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216