A Practical Guide to Studying History by Tracey Loughran

Author:Tracey Loughran
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472530097
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2019-11-23T00:00:00+00:00

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STUDY QUESTIONS

• What types of documents do archives hold?

• Why is it important to reference sources accurately?

• Does the political and historical context play a part in what is kept in the archives and made available to histos?

• What are the potential challenges of conducting research in the archives?

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Notes

1 Imperial War Museums: Collection and Research: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections-research. Accessed 16 January 2016.

2 British Library: Newspaper Collections: http://www.bl.uk/newspapers. Accessed 16 January 2016.

3 Archivio Storico Istituto Luce: http://www.archivioluce.com/archivio/#n. Accessed 16 January 2016.

4 Glamorgan Archives/Archifau Morgannwg: http://www.glamarchives.gov.uk/. Accessed 16 January 2016.

5 Cardiff University Information Services: Special Collections and Archives (SCOLAR): http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/insrv/libraries/scolar/. Accessed 16 January 2016.

6 Cambridge University Library: Jardine Matheson Archive: http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0012/MS__JM. Accessed 16 January 2016.

7 Leeds University Library: Liddle Collection Guide (personal papers from First and Second World War): http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-liddle-collection. Accessed 16 January 2016.

8 The National Archives: Citing Documents in the National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/citing-documents.htm. Accessed 16 January 2016.

9 Security Service MI5: Managing Information: https://www.mi5.gov.uk/managing-information. Accessed 24 May 2016.

10 The National Archives: Cabinet Papers 1915–1986: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/cabinet-gov/meetings-papers.htm; The National Archives: Freedom of Information Act 2000: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/contents. Both accessed 16 January 2016.

11 Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the Former German Democratic Republic: The Reconstruction of Torn Documents: http://www.bstu.bund.de/EN/Archives/ReconstructionOfShreddedRecords/_node.html. Accessed 16 January 2016.

12 The ‘Four Olds’ were ‘old customs, old habits, old culture, and old thinking’. See J. D. Spence (1999) The Search for Modern China, 2nd edn (New York: W.W. Norton), p. 575.

13 ‘Archives Reveal “Comfort Women” Official Actions of Japan’, People’s Daily Online, 26 April 2014: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90785/8610818.html. Accessed 16 January 2016. The expression ‘comfort women’ indicates girls and women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army in occupied territories.

14 ‘Jilin Releases New Research on Japan’s War of Aggression against China’, People’s Daily Online, 7 July 2014: http://english.people.com.cn/n/2014/0707/c98649-8751864.html. Accessed 16 January 2016.

15 A. Harney, ‘China Releases Japanese Wartime Documents: State Media’, Reuters US, 27 April 2014: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/27/us-china-japan-war-idUSBREA3Q02220140427. Accessed 16 January 2016.

16 ‘Archives Reveal “Comfort Women” Official Actions of Japan’.

17 Archives Hub: http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/ and The National Archives: Discovery: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/. Both accessed 16 January 2016.

18 See, for instance, the British Library: British Newspaper Archive: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/. Accessed 16 January 2016.

19 The National Archives: Our Online Records: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/our-online-records.htm. Accessed 16 January 2016.

20 Cardiff University Information Services: Cabinet Papers (20th C.): http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/insrv/libraries/scolar/special/cabinet.html. Accessed 16 January 2016.

21 Undergraduates and postgraduates enrolled in British universities can gain access to participating libraries nationwide through SCONUL Access. SCONUL: SCONUL Access: http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sconul-access. Accessed 16 January 2016.

22 Dissertation Reviews: http://dissertationreviews.org/. Accessed 16 January 2016.

23 Dissertation Reviews: Fresh from the Archives: http://dissertationreviews.org/fresh-from-the-archives. Accessed 16 January 2016.

24 M. Cunningham, ‘Denying Histos: China’s Archives Increasingly Off-Bounds’, The Wall Street Journal, 19 August 2014: http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/08/19/denying-histos-chinas-archives-increasingly-off-bounds/. Accessed 16 January 2016.

25 The National Archives: Will I Need a Reader’s Ticket?: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/visit/readers-ticket.htm. Accessed 16 January 2016.

26 Imperial War Museums: Our Research Facilities: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections-research/research-facilities. Accessed 16 January 2016.

27 SOAS Library: Access to Archives & Special Collections: http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/access-to-collections/. Accessed 16 January 2016.

28 For a detailed discussion on the history and organization of archives in the PRC, see W. Ye and J. W. Esherick (1996) Chinese Archives: An Introductory Guide (Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press).

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