Historical Insights, Focus on Research: Newspapers...

Demography and the Imperial Public Sphere before Victoria: Historical Insights, Focus on Research: Newspapers...: "The relationship between the periodical press, especially newspapers, and the study of history is a long and tumultuous one. Newspapers prov..."

In this post M.H. Beals lets readers know about a guide she has co-authored with Lisa Lavender about understanding newspapers in the Focus on Research series from the History Subject Centre. The other guides in this series are oral history and quantitative skills for historians. I think the newspaper and oral history guides could be useful for historians, students, and genealogists as each group will likely encounter both in some form or another. Migration historians often have to cope with numbers, I know I did, so the quantitative booklet skills will likely very useful.

There are other interesting publications by the History Subject Centre so have look around their publications page. There is a Focus on Teaching Series which includes titles on teaching the Enlightenment and Medieval Castles. There are also several briefing reports including one on International Students by Beal and another one Building Inclusive Academic Communities co-authored by Kimm Curran (a fellow student of mine from the University of Glasgow).

It seems as if my summer reading list has just gotten longer...