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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the writing of history has changed over time, from ancient epics to medieval hagiographies and modern deconstructions. In the 6th century AD, the bishop of Tours began his...
Looks at the kinds of evidence historians use to uncover the past. Professor Arthur Marwick looks at the evidence available to historians of the family - materials ranging from a tombstone to a fictional film.
Looks at the way historians use primary source that exist from the impact of the French revolution on ordinary people.
Introduces the concepts of historical interpretation, using a variety of sources from real history sites to clips from feature films, interviews, readings, slides and still pictures.
Follows a group of teacher training students as they carry out a local history study of their own college and its immediate area, researching into documents, landscapes, buildings and oral history. Also...
Discusses principles established by the Public Record Office for handling and preserving historic records. Shows correct handling and conservation of books and other documents, maps and plans, photographs,...
Professor Thompson visits archives and examines documents which are referred to, and were part of, his original research for his book ‘English Landed Society in the 19th Century’. Professor Marwick...
Eric Hobsbawm, Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London, and Michael Mann, Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, discuss key features of modern states by looking more...
Professor Arthur Marwick, with the staff at the Museum of London, shows a range of sources available to the historian. He assesses the relative importance of the witting and unwitting testimony of different...
People doing business create records to retain accurate information for their own use and reference, as do schools, hospitals, families and universities. These records may, when preserved, be important...
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