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Syllabus

Week

Lectures

Seminars

Term 2

Week 1

Introduction to the Research Project

Finding Sources/Visiting Archives

Research Skills/Formulating a question

Modern Records Centre Visit

Week 2

Textual Sources - Letters

Modern Records Centre Visit

Research Skills/Formulating a question

Week 3

Visual Sources - Photography

Working with letters

See Moodle for preparatory task

Week 4

Legal Sources

Working with images

See Moodle for preparatory task

Week 5

Oral History and Ethics

Working with criminal trials

See Moodle for preparatory task

Week 6

Reading week

Reading Week

Week 7

Digital Tools and Public History

Oral history and ethics

See Moodle for preparatory task

Week 8

Historiography and Methodological challenges

Digital Humanities Methods

See Moodle for preparatory task

Week 9

Planning and Writing

Identifying methodological challenges

See Moodle for preparatory task

Week 10

Drafting the Research Project

See Moodle for preparatory task

Term 3

Week 1

Conclusions

RWS: Putting the project together

Drop-in-Sessions: See Moodle for further details