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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

Contents

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

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