Methods & Sources of Historical Research
From Wikicliki
Notes from a course on methods and sources of historical research at IHR, 11 July 2016 - 15 July 2016
The Nature of Archives and Primary Source Material
- Notion of difference between primary and secondary sources... but its quite fuzzy
- Primary = unmediated access to past (not processed by another mind)
- Newspapers = a report of what has been told. testimonies are primary but the reporter has chewed thru the material.
- Historians make statements about things which should be believed - by people who dont have access to primary sources