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List of contents
1: Editors' Introduction (Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire, Leicester); Part 1: The Essentials; 2: Working With/In the Archives (Michelle T. King, North Carolina); 3: Approaching Visual Materials (Ludmilla Jordanova, King's College, London; 4: Material Culture (Alan Mayne, Adelaide); 5: Landscape and Place (Joanna Guldi, Harvard); Part 2: Researching Individuals and Groups; 6: Collective Biography (Krista Cowman, Lincoln); 7: Life Stories and Historical Research (Alistair Thomson, Monash); Part 3: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis; 8: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (Keith Lilley, Queens Belfast); 9: Document to Data Base (R. J. Morris, Edinburgh); Part 4: Deciphering Meanings; 10: Reading Language as an Historical Source (Julie-Marie Strange, Manchester); 11: Analysing Performance (Simon Gunn, Leicester); Part 5: Rethinking Categories; 12: Ethics and Historical Research (William Gallois, Roehampton); 13: Time and Temporality in Historical Writing (Prashant Kidambi, Leicester); Index.
About the author
Simon Gunn is Professor of Urban History in the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester. He has taught and studied research methods in Historical Studies for a number of years. His publications include History and Cultural Theory (Longman, 2006) and The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class (MUP, 2000). He is joint editor of the Cambridge University Press journal, Urban History and co-editor with James Vernon of The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (University of California Press, 2010). Lucy Faire is Honorary Fellow in the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester. She specialises in the history of home and leisure. She is the co-author with Mark Jancovich of The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption (BFI, 2003).
