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  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. About the authors
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. A note on readership
  7. Preface
  8. Part I: Starting, assessing, organizing
    1. 1. Joining the through-time community of historians
    2. 2. Launching the research project
    3. 3. Shared monitoring of the timetable
    4. 4. Finding well-attested evidence
    5. 5. Probing sources and methodologies
    6. 6. Managing masses of data
  9. Part II: Writing, analysing, interpreting
    1. 7. Writing as a historian
    2. 8. Doing it in public: historians and social media
    3. 9. Unblocking writer’s block or, better still, non-blocking in the first place
    4. 10. Using technology creatively: digital history
    5. 11. Assessing some key research approaches
    6. 12. Troubleshooting
  10. Part III: Presenting, completing and moving onwards
    1. 13. The art of public presentation
    2. 14. Asking and answering seminar questions
    3. 15. Chairing seminars and lectures
    4. 16. Taking the last steps to completion
    5. 17. Experiencing the viva
    6. 18. Moving on to publication and civic engagement
  11. Part IV: Taking the long view – career outcomes
    1. 19. Academic and parallel trackways
  12. Part V: Reflecting
    1. 20. Retrospective thoughts
  13. Select reading list
  14. Index

Becoming a Historian

An Informal Guide

Penelope J. Corfield

&

Tim Hitchcock

LONDON

INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON PRESS

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