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Historiography and Historical Methods

Historiography and philosophy of history (what is history? — Carr — What is History? 1961 — history as dialogue between past and present — historian and facts — social process; Elton — The Practice of History — empiricism — facts first; Marxist historiography — base and superstructure — forces and relations of production — class struggle as motor of history — Hill; Hilton; Hobsbawm; Thompson; Annales School — Febvre — Bloch — Braudel — longue durée — geohistory; structural history; Ladurie — Montaillou; Carnival in Romans; narrative history vs structural history — Stone — revival of narrative — causation vs description; historical explanation — covering law model — Hempel — deductive-nomological; idealist philosophy of history — Collingwood — re-enactment — historical understanding; Dray — Laws and Explanation; the linguistic turn — Hayden White — Metahistory 1973 — tropological structure — romance; tragedy; comedy; satire — narrative as literary form — emplotment — tropology; irony; Ankersmit — historical representation — no direct access to past — narrative substance; Derrida — deconstruction — text and trace; Foucault — archaeology of knowledge — power/knowledge — genealogy — Discipline and Punish — surveillance; discourse analysis in history; post-colonial critique of history — Chakrabarty — Provincializing Europe — historicism; European teleology; Dipesh Chakrabarty — minority histories — subaltern histories). Historical sources and methodology (primary sources — archives — TNA — The National Archives — Kew — records — government; legal; private; church; PRO; British Library — manuscripts — ODNB; census records — 1841-1921; parish registers; newspapers — British Newspaper Archive; visual sources — art history — iconography — Panofsky; photography — Susan Sontag — On Photography; Barthes — Camera Lucida — punctum; studium; material culture — artefacts — costume; furniture; buildings; oral history — Thompson — The Voice of the Past — interviewing; memory; fallibility; subjectivity; archives and power — Derrida — Archive Fever — archival impulse; the archive as colonial instrument; Foucault — archaeological method; diplomatic history — document analysis — Butterfield; quantitative history — cliometrics — Fogel and Engerman — Time on the Cross — slave economics — econometric — debated; Robert Fogel Nobel Prize 1993; Cambridge Group for the History of Population — Laslett; Wrigley; Schofield — Population History of England — family reconstitution; computers in historical research — digital humanities — Text Encoding Initiative TEI; Historical GIS; Mapping the Republic of Letters; ESTC — English Short Title Catalogue; structured database approach; public history — heritage — English Heritage; Historic England; National Trust; BBC History — popularisation — Schama; David Starkey; Dan Snow — historians and media — public intellectuals; memory; commemoration — First World War centenary 2014-18 — contested narratives).