Dear students,
Welcome to our new blog on an important topic HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Historical research or historiography, "attempts to systematically recapture the complex nuances, the people, meanings, events, and even ideas of the past that have influenced and shaped the present". (Berg & Lure, 2012, p. 305 )
Historical research relies on a wide variety of sources, both primary & secondary including unpublished material.
Primary Sources
• Eyewitness accounts of events
• Can be oral or written testimony
• Found in public records & legal documents, minutes of meetings, corporate records, recordings, letters, diaries, journals, drawings.
• Located in university archives, libraries or privately run collections such as local historical society.
Secondary Sources
• Can be oral or written
• Secondhand accounts of events
• Found in textbooks, encyclopedias, journal articles, newspapers, biographies and other media such as films or tape recordings
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