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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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The British Library: Ivory Tower?
By Fred Smith @Fred_E_Smith The British Library is overflowing with young, frappuccino-supping undergraduates more interested in checking Facebook and watching Netflix than carrying out ‘serious’ research. At least this is the impression one might take from reading an article in The Times newspaper last month.[1] Several prominent academics, including former professor of Renaissance literature at the University…
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Call For Papers – Facing the Challenge of Bias in History: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
Bias is a fundamental problem encountered by historians studying all time periods, using all methods, and at all stages of their career. The conveners of a one-day workshop on Facing the Challenge of Bias in History, to be held on Sunday 15th May 2016 at the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, therefore invite papers from historians…
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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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