A Practical Guide to Studying History

1st Edition - PROSE Award Winner (2018) in the Textbook/Humanities Category
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