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How do historians write?
By Tom Goodwin, @tgooders Thomas is an MPhil student in Early Modern History. He is currently researching sixteenth-century Italian heretics and their use of the printing press. I spent the morning putting in a comma; I spent the afternoon taking it out – Oscar Wilde Writing history remains something of a dark art. From the…
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When is Research Worth it?
By Matthew Tibble Matthew is an MPhil student in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge. He is currently researching religious counsel during the mid-Tudor period. I have been studying history for the better part of four years, yet it was only recently that I managed to fulfil the archetypal ambition of making an…
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Putting down the books: when is research ‘complete’?
By Jess Hope When I was an undergraduate, I wrote a history essay where my main primary source was an ‘eyewitness account’ of the events I was describing. It was detailed and colourful, full of vivid descriptions, quotes and recollections. It was great fun both to read and to write about. It was only later…
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Fostering Research Communities
By Matt Tibble on behalf of Inciting Sparks @IncitingSparks ‘Public engagement’ and ‘research communities’ – these are the new buzzwords from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, one of the largest funding bodies for historical research in the UK. Their message is that the gulf between the ivory tower of academic research in higher education institutions and…
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The Wandering Historian: Reflections on a Year of Research Abroad
In the second of our posts on doing research abroad, Tom Smith (@TomEtesonSmith) traverses the United States. Working on American history from a British university as I do, it was inevitable that at some point during my PhD research I was going to have to spend some time abroad. Courtesy of two Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded…
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