A Practical Guide to Studying History: Skills and Approaches
Editat de Tracey Loughranen Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 oct 2026
This accessible and award-winning introduction to history at university guides students through their studies, from the first day on campus to researching final year independent research projects. The book introduces students to key historical concepts, debates, and schools of thought, and examines the differences in aims, methods and audiences for different types of history.
A Practical Guide to Studying History helps students to hone the skills needed to read historical writing critically, write good essays, and participate in historical debates. Incorporating case studies taken from a range of periods and regions around the world, reflecting the varied nature of historical study, the book helps students to understand the subject, and to practice it successfully: it is an indispensable guide to studying history.
For the first time, this edition includes:
· An improved structure with a new section on the transition 'From School to University'
· 9 new chapters on 'Making the Transition to University', 'Choosing Modules: Risks and Rewards', 'Decolonizing History' , 'Sexualities', 'What is Historiography?', 'Using Primary Sources', 'Doing History in a Digital World', 'Beyond Text: Objects as Historical Sources', and 'History and Activism'
· Updated case studies throughout
· Images, study questions, further reading lists, and text boxes
· A companion website which includes five additional chapters, author profiles and interviews, annotated bibliographies, primary source analysis guides, and chapter-related activities for students and tutors
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350429376
ISBN-10: 1350429376
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 20 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:2
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350429376
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 20 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:2
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Introduction Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
Part 1: From School to University
Introduction Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
1. Making the Transition to University Matthew Grant (University of Essex, UK)
2. Choosing Modules: Risks and Rewards Nicki Kindersley (Cardiff University, UK)
3. Reading and Writing History Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
4. Sources for Essays Keir Waddington (Cardiff University, UK)
5. Historical Research for Undergraduates Garthine Walker (Cardiff University)
Part 2: Framing Histories
Introduction Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
6. Decolonising History Lydia Plath (University of Warwick, UK)
7. Nations Mark Williams (Cardiff University, UK)
8. Periodization Shaun Tougher (Cardiff University, UK)
9. Sexualities Amy Tooth Murphy (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
10. Identities Siobhan McGurk (Independent Scholar, USA)
11. What is Historiography? Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
Part 3: The Historian's Craft
Introduction Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
12. Using Primary Sources Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
13. Archives Federica Ferlanti (Cardiff University, UK)
14. Doing History in a Digital World Chris Sparks and Daniel Todman (both Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
15. Beyond Text: Objects as Historical Sources Leonie Hannan (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Sarah Longair (University of Lincoln, UK)
16. Evidence & Interpretation Kevin Passmore (Cardiff University, UK)
Part 4: History in Public
Introduction Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
17. History in Schools Lloyd Bowen (Cardiff University, UK)
18. History and Policy Alix R. Green and Matthew Grant (both University of Essex, UK)
19. Exhibiting History Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
20. History and Heritage Stephanie Ward (Cardiff University, UK)
21. History and Activism Aleema Gray (University of Warwick)
22. Taking History into the World David Wyatt (Cardiff University, UK)
Index
Introduction Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
Part 1: From School to University
Introduction Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
1. Making the Transition to University Matthew Grant (University of Essex, UK)
2. Choosing Modules: Risks and Rewards Nicki Kindersley (Cardiff University, UK)
3. Reading and Writing History Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
4. Sources for Essays Keir Waddington (Cardiff University, UK)
5. Historical Research for Undergraduates Garthine Walker (Cardiff University)
Part 2: Framing Histories
Introduction Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
6. Decolonising History Lydia Plath (University of Warwick, UK)
7. Nations Mark Williams (Cardiff University, UK)
8. Periodization Shaun Tougher (Cardiff University, UK)
9. Sexualities Amy Tooth Murphy (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
10. Identities Siobhan McGurk (Independent Scholar, USA)
11. What is Historiography? Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
Part 3: The Historian's Craft
Introduction Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
12. Using Primary Sources Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
13. Archives Federica Ferlanti (Cardiff University, UK)
14. Doing History in a Digital World Chris Sparks and Daniel Todman (both Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
15. Beyond Text: Objects as Historical Sources Leonie Hannan (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Sarah Longair (University of Lincoln, UK)
16. Evidence & Interpretation Kevin Passmore (Cardiff University, UK)
Part 4: History in Public
Introduction Tracey Loughran (University of Essex, UK)
17. History in Schools Lloyd Bowen (Cardiff University, UK)
18. History and Policy Alix R. Green and Matthew Grant (both University of Essex, UK)
19. Exhibiting History Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
20. History and Heritage Stephanie Ward (Cardiff University, UK)
21. History and Activism Aleema Gray (University of Warwick)
22. Taking History into the World David Wyatt (Cardiff University, UK)
Index
Recenzii
This lucid and engaging guide to producing and consuming history should be required reading for history undergraduates (and their teachers). In clear and accessible prose, it explains the latest methodological approaches and debates and serves as a practical handbook to reading, researching, and writing history. The book also follows history into the world beyond the university, with thoughtful chapters on different forms of public or popular history. Each chapter is written by an active practitioner of history, and is based on the most up-to-date scholarship and illuminating case studies.
A Practical Guide to Studying History should be read by every student embarking on a history degree. It offers a challenging, comprehensive and stimulating introduction to what historians do, to why and how they do it, and also to what skills students need to successfully study history at university. Its chapters, reflecting the professional experience of the authors as researchers and educators, address all the major themes that shape the study of history in today's world. Any student who reads it will acquire a sophisticated understanding of the historian's craft as both they and their lecturers should practice it.
A Practical Guide to Studying History is a terrific addition to the many books aimed at undergraduate historians. Tracey Loughran's team adopt a fresh approach, setting out to explain how History 'works', analysing how History is produced by academics, by students and by public bodies. The book's 18 accessible and engaging chapters stand out both for their range, from the organisation of archives in China to History teaching in Zimbabwe, and for the practical advice presented to students, including debates about the purpose of a History degree, alongside more familiar topics such as 'People's History' and essay-writing techniques. Highly recommended.
This is the book I've been waiting for: a lively, engaging, sophisticated guide to the pleasures and perils of historical work. It introduces key approaches to history, gives practical guidance on research, sources and essay writing, and reminds us that there is no single roadmap into the past but rather a range of routes and pit stops. It is inspirational stuff. Loughran has drawn together passionate historians who are skilled at communicating their craft with real clarity. By the end of the book we know how to make history and also why it matters. Aimed at those starting out on undergraduate study, the book also speaks to anyone interested in doing historical work and indeed those already immersed in it.
This book will appeal to anyone with a general interest in history, historiography or history education.
Tracey Loughran has edited a wonderfully down-to-earth introduction to some of the basic problems that history undergraduates grapple with - what do we do with perspectivity? What are the benefits of comparative history writing? What challenges do national histories pose? Why can a biographical approach to historical writing be useful? What are the benefits from a history-from-below perspective? How do we deal with identities in history writing? These are just some of the fascinating questions that are discussed here, showing students that the shifting boundaries of the profession are part and parcel of what history writing is all about. This book is a must for history undergraduates.
This is a wonderful book. Students will appreciate it's clear and engaging introduction to the key concepts and skills required to do History at university.
[T]he chapters are written so as to generate enthusiasm and excitement about doing history. ... [S]tudents who read and comprehend its chapters will quickly progress beyond beginning historians.
A Practical Guide to Studying History should be read by every student embarking on a history degree. It offers a challenging, comprehensive and stimulating introduction to what historians do, to why and how they do it, and also to what skills students need to successfully study history at university. Its chapters, reflecting the professional experience of the authors as researchers and educators, address all the major themes that shape the study of history in today's world. Any student who reads it will acquire a sophisticated understanding of the historian's craft as both they and their lecturers should practice it.
A Practical Guide to Studying History is a terrific addition to the many books aimed at undergraduate historians. Tracey Loughran's team adopt a fresh approach, setting out to explain how History 'works', analysing how History is produced by academics, by students and by public bodies. The book's 18 accessible and engaging chapters stand out both for their range, from the organisation of archives in China to History teaching in Zimbabwe, and for the practical advice presented to students, including debates about the purpose of a History degree, alongside more familiar topics such as 'People's History' and essay-writing techniques. Highly recommended.
This is the book I've been waiting for: a lively, engaging, sophisticated guide to the pleasures and perils of historical work. It introduces key approaches to history, gives practical guidance on research, sources and essay writing, and reminds us that there is no single roadmap into the past but rather a range of routes and pit stops. It is inspirational stuff. Loughran has drawn together passionate historians who are skilled at communicating their craft with real clarity. By the end of the book we know how to make history and also why it matters. Aimed at those starting out on undergraduate study, the book also speaks to anyone interested in doing historical work and indeed those already immersed in it.
This book will appeal to anyone with a general interest in history, historiography or history education.
Tracey Loughran has edited a wonderfully down-to-earth introduction to some of the basic problems that history undergraduates grapple with - what do we do with perspectivity? What are the benefits of comparative history writing? What challenges do national histories pose? Why can a biographical approach to historical writing be useful? What are the benefits from a history-from-below perspective? How do we deal with identities in history writing? These are just some of the fascinating questions that are discussed here, showing students that the shifting boundaries of the profession are part and parcel of what history writing is all about. This book is a must for history undergraduates.
This is a wonderful book. Students will appreciate it's clear and engaging introduction to the key concepts and skills required to do History at university.
[T]he chapters are written so as to generate enthusiasm and excitement about doing history. ... [S]tudents who read and comprehend its chapters will quickly progress beyond beginning historians.