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General guides
J. M. Banner, Being a Historian: an Introduction to the Professional World of History (Cambridge, 2012)
J. Black and D. M. MacRaild, Studying History (Basingstoke, 2007)
P. Claus and J. Marriott, History: an Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice (London, 2017)
A. Curthoys and A. McGrath, How to Write the History That People Want to Read (Basingstoke, 2011)
L. Jordanova, History in Practice (London, 2000)
J. Tosh with S. Lang, The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History (London, 2006)
History of history-writing (historiography)
M. Bentley, Modern Historiography: an Introduction (London, 1999)
J. Black, Clio’s Battles: Historiography in Practice (Bloomington, Ind., 2015)
P. Burke, The French Historical Revolution: the Annales School, 1929–89 (Cambridge, 1990)
H. Chiang et al. (ed.), Global Encyclopaedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) History (Farmington Hills, Mich., 2019)
H. J. Kaye, The British Marxist Historians: an Introductory Analysis (Cambridge, 1984)
G. McLennan, Marxism and the Methodologies of History (London, 1981)
A. Meier and E. Rudwick, Black History and the Historical Profession, 1915–80 (Urbana, Ill., 1986)
S. H. Rigby, Marxism and History: a Critical Introduction (Manchester, 1987)
H. L. Smith and M. L. Zook, Generations of Women Historians: Within and Beyond the Academy (Basingstoke, 2018)
J. Tendler, Opponents of the Annales School (Basingstoke, 2013)
D. R. Woolf, A Concise History of History: Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge, 2019)
Theories and philosophy of history-writing (historiology)
J. M. de Bernardo Arès, Historiology, Research and Didactics: Elaboration and Transmission of Historical Knowledge (London, 1996)
P. J. Corfield, Time and the Shape of History (London, 2007)
M. Day, The Philosophy of History: an Introduction (London, 2008)
J. W. Moses and T. L. Knutsen (ed.), Ways of Knowing: Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research (London, 2019)
A. Tucker, Our Knowledge of the Past: a Philosophy of Historiography (Cambridge, 2004)
Historians on studying history
M. Bloch, The Historian’s Craft, transl. P. Putnam (Manchester, 1954, 1967)
D. Cannadine, Making History, Now and Then: Discoveries, Controversies and Explorations (Basingstoke, 2008)
R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History, ed. T. M. Knox (pub. posthumously, 1946)
J. H. Elliott, History in the Making (London, 2012)
N. Ferguson (ed.), Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (London, 1997; New York, 1999)
R. J. D. Munro, Clio’s Lives: Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians (Canberra, 2017)
Historical sources (textual, including maps)
P. Carter and K. Thompson, Sources for Local Historians (Chichester, 2005)
M. Drake and R. Finnegan, Sources and Methods for Family and Community Historians: a Handbook (Cambridge, 1997)
A. Farge, The Allure of the Archives, transl. T. Scott-Railton (New Haven, Conn., 2013)
V. Johnson, S. Fowler and D. Thomas, The Silence of the Archive (London, 2017)
S. Porter, Exploring Urban History: Sources for Local Historians (London, 1990)
C. Steedman, Dust (Manchester, 2001)
Historical sources (non-textual)
C. Armstrong, Using Non-Textual Sources: a Historian’s Guide (London, 2015)
P. Burke, Eyewitnessing: the Uses of Images as Historical Evidence (London, 2001)
J. Chapman, Film and History (Basingstoke, 2013)
L. Hannan and S. Longair, History through Material Culture (Manchester, 2017)
K. Harvey (ed.), History and Material Culture: a Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources (London, 2017)
L. Jordanova, The Look of the Past: Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice (Cambridge, 2012)
R. Rosenstone, Visions of the Past: the Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History (Cambridge, Mass., 1995)
Useful websites
BatchGeo – <https://batchgeo.com> [accessed 30 April 2021]
Google Earth – <https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth> [accessed 30 April 2021]
Google Ngram Viewer – <https://books.google.com/ngrams> [accessed 30 April 2021]
The Programming Historian – <https://programminghistorian.org> [accessed 30 April 2021]
Tropy: Research Photo Management – <https://tropy.org> [accessed 30 April 2021]
Voyant – See Through Your Text – <https://voyant-tools.org> [accessed 29 April 2021]
Zotero – <https://www.zotero.org> [accessed 29 April 2021]
Historical documentation
A. Brundage, Going to the Sources: a Guide to Historical Research and Writing (Hoboken, N.J., 2018)
F. A. Burkle-Young and S. R. Maley, The Art of the Footnote: the Intelligent Student’s Guide to the Art and Science of Annotating Texts (London, 1996)
A. Grafton, The Footnote: a Curious History (London, 1997)
Types of history
R. C. Allan, Global Economic History: a Very Short Introduction (London, 2019)
T. Bennett and P. Joyce (ed.), Material Powers: Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn (Cham, 2010)
J. Black, Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day (London, 2018)
D. Christian, Maps of Time: an Introduction to Big History (London, 2004)
D. C. Coleman, History and the Economic Past: an Account of the Rise and Decline of Economic History (Oxford, 1987)
R. J. Evans, Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History (London, 2014)
R. Ghosh (ed.), The Study of Social History: Recent Trends (Kolkata, 2013)
S. Gunn, History and Cultural Theory (Harlow, 2006)
D. Hey, Family Names and Family History (London, 2000)
J. D. Hughes, An Environmental History of the World: Humankind’s Changing Role in the Community of Life (Oxford, 2001)
S. G. Magnússon and I. M. Szijárto, What Is Micro-History? Theory and Practice (London, 2013)
A. Munslow (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies (London, 2000)
J. Plamper, The History of Emotions: an Introduction, transl. K. Tribe (Oxford, 2015)
D. A. Ritchie, Doing Oral History: a Practical Guide (New York, 2015)
P. N. Stearns, Gender in World History (London, 2015)
W. Steinmetz et al. (ed.), Writing Political History Today (Frankfurt, 2013)
R. Wenzlhuemer, Doing Global History: an Introduction to Six Concepts (London, 2019)
Cliometrics (quantitative history)
A. Campbell et al., Research Design in Social Work: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods (Los Angeles, Calif., 2016)
C. Feinstein and M. Thomas, Making History Count: a Primer in Quantitative Methods for Historians (Cambridge, 2002)
R. W. Fogel, ‘The limits of quantitative methods in history’, American Historical Review, lxxx (1975), 329–50
P. Hudson, History by Numbers: an Introduction to Quantitative Approaches (London, 2000)
J. S. Lyons et al. (ed.), Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians (London, 2008)
Digital history (computerized big data analysis)
D. J. Cohen and R. Rosenzweig, Digital History: a Guide to Gathering, Presenting and Preserving the Past on the Web (Philadelphia, Pa., 2006)
A. Crymble, Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age (Urbana, Ill., 2021)
L. Levenberg, T. Neilson and D. Rheams (ed.), Research Methods for the Digital Humanities (London, 2018)
I. Milligan, History in the Age of Abundance: How the Web Is Transforming Historical Research (London, 2019)
R. Risam, New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Practice and Pedagogy (Evanston, Ill., 2019)
H. Salmi, What Is Digital History? (Cambridge, 2020)
G. Schiuma and D. Carlucci, Big Data in the Arts and Humanities: Theory and Practice (Boca Raton, Fla., 2018)
History, the postmodernist challenge and critical responses
P. Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity (London, 1998)
C. G. Brown, Postmodernism for Historians (Harlow, 2005)
R. J. Evans, In Defence of History (London, 1997)
K. Jenkins, Re-Thinking History (1991, 2003)
A. Munslow, Narrative and History (Basingstoke, 2007)
G. Myerson, Ecology and the End of Postmodernism (Cambridge, 2001)
C. Norris, What’s Wrong with Postmodernism: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy (London, 1990)
N. A. Raab, The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age (London, 2020)
H. V. White, The Content of Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (London, 1973)
K. Windschuttle, The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past (New York, 1996)
Studying for a research degree in history
J. Felton et al., The Professional Doctorate: a Practical Guide (Basingstoke, 2013)
R. Murray, How to Survive Your Viva: Defending a Thesis in an Oral Examination (Maidenhead, 2009)
J. Wellington et al. (ed.), Succeeding with Your Doctorate (London, 2005)
Teaching history
W. Caferro, Teaching History (London, 2019)
J. Cannon, Teaching History at University (London, 1984)
A. Flint and S. Jack, Approaches to Learning and Teaching History: a Toolkit for International Teachers (Cambridge, 2018)
T. M. Kelly, Teaching History in the Digital Age (Ann Arbor, Mich., 2013)
R. B. Simon et al. (ed.), Teaching Big History (Oakland, Calif., 2015)
Historians and public history
D. Armitage and J. Guldi, The History Manifesto (Cambridge, 2014)
S. Berger (ed.), Perspectives on the Intersection between Politics, Activism and the Historical Profession (New York, 2019)
J. de Groot, Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture (London, 2016)
M. Finn and K. Smith (ed.), New Paths to Public Histories (Basingstoke, 2015)
J. B. Gardner and P. Hamilton (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Public History (New York, 2017)
J. L. Koslow, Public History: an Introduction from Theory to Application (London, 2021)
J. Wojdon and D. Wisniewska (ed.), Public in Public History (London, 2021)