Becoming a Historian

Part 1 Starting, Assessing, Organising 1.1 Joining the Through-Time Community of Historians
1.2 Launching the Research Project 1.3 Shared Monitoring of the Timetable 1.4 Finding Well-Attested Evidence 1.5 Probing Sources & Methodologies 1.6 Managing Masses of Data
Part 2 Writing, Analysing, Interpreting 2.1 Writing as a Historian
2.2 Doing It in Public: Historians & Social Media 2.3 Unblocking Writer’s Block, or Better Still, Non-Blocking in the First Place 2.4 Using Technology Creatively: Digital History 2.5 Assessing Some Key Research Approaches 2.6 Troubleshooting
Part 3 Presenting, Completing & Moving Onwards
3.1 Public Lecturing
3.2 Asking & Answering Seminar Questions 3.3 Chairing Seminars 3.4 Taking the Last Steps to Completion 3.5 Experiencing the Viva including Appendix: Note on Range of Viva Outcomes & Appropriate Responses 3.6 Moving Onwards to Publication & Civic Engagement
Part 4 Taking the Long View – Career Outcomes
4.1 Academic Trackways 4.2 Parallel Trackways 4.3 Summary: Trained Historians’ Knowledge and Skills
Part 5 Reflecting 5.1.1 & 5.1.2 Retrospective Thoughts
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Penelope J. Corfield (Author)

Penelope J. Corfield is Professor Emeritus of History at Royal Holloway, University of London; Visiting Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Member of the Academia Europaea/ Academy of Europe; and President of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2019- the present). Her publications address British social, cultural and urban history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as general theories of time and history. She gained her own research experience at the Universities of Oxford and London (LSE); she has enjoyed supervising many MA and PhD students; and she welcomes the internationalization of scholarship.

Tim Hitchcock (Author)

Tim Hitchcock is Professor of Digital History at the University of Sussex and until 2021 was Director of the Sussex Humanities Lab. Prior to this he held posts at the University of North London, and the University of Hertfordshire. He has published a dozen books on the histories of poverty, sexuality, gender and crime focusing on eighteenth-century London. With Robert Shoemaker, and others, he has also been responsible for creating a series of web resources, including the Old Bailey Online, London Lives and Locating London’s Past. His first degree was awarded by the University of California at Berkeley, and he received his doctorate from the University of Oxford.

The rich tone lucid thinking and crisp writing flow through three core sections to form a road map of insightful advice for the doctoral history students journey in writing a dissertation. Part 1… explains historical method for topic ideations to research plan to source assessment. Part 2… shows how historians gaze into the past, interpreting primary evidence and prior histories to build a long-term history. Part 3… tells how historians scholarly conversations via seminars and other venues provide feedback to refine the doctoral thesis pursuant to the oral dissertation defence BA and MA students Becoming a Historian stands tall as the go to history methods primer for anglosphere PhD students.’

— J.T. Mallone, Queens College, City University of New York, USA

Subject: History

BISAC codes: HIS000000

Thema codes: GTB, NHA

Keywords: advice, historians, methods, research projects, scholarly community

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