Historical Research Using British Newspapers
Thanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for researchers. Through their pages, historians with a passion for a person or a place or a time or a topic can rediscover forgotten details and gain new insights into the society and values of bygone ages.

Historical Research Using British Newspapers provides plenty of practical advice for anyone intending to use old newspapers by:

* outlining the strengths of newspapers as source material

* revealing the drawbacks of newspapers as sources and giving ways to guard against them

* tracing the development of the British newspaper industry

* showing the type of information that can be found in newspapers and how it can be used

* identifying the best newspapers to start with when researching a particular topic

* suggesting methods to locate the most relevant articles available

* demonstrating techniques for collating, analysing and interpreting information

* showing how to place newspaper reports in their wider context

In addition nine case studies are included, showing how researchers have already made productive use of newspapers to gain insights that were not available from elsewhere.
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Historical Research Using British Newspapers
Thanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for researchers. Through their pages, historians with a passion for a person or a place or a time or a topic can rediscover forgotten details and gain new insights into the society and values of bygone ages.

Historical Research Using British Newspapers provides plenty of practical advice for anyone intending to use old newspapers by:

* outlining the strengths of newspapers as source material

* revealing the drawbacks of newspapers as sources and giving ways to guard against them

* tracing the development of the British newspaper industry

* showing the type of information that can be found in newspapers and how it can be used

* identifying the best newspapers to start with when researching a particular topic

* suggesting methods to locate the most relevant articles available

* demonstrating techniques for collating, analysing and interpreting information

* showing how to place newspaper reports in their wider context

In addition nine case studies are included, showing how researchers have already made productive use of newspapers to gain insights that were not available from elsewhere.
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Historical Research Using British Newspapers

Historical Research Using British Newspapers

by Denise Bates
Historical Research Using British Newspapers

Historical Research Using British Newspapers

by Denise Bates

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Overview

Thanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for researchers. Through their pages, historians with a passion for a person or a place or a time or a topic can rediscover forgotten details and gain new insights into the society and values of bygone ages.

Historical Research Using British Newspapers provides plenty of practical advice for anyone intending to use old newspapers by:

* outlining the strengths of newspapers as source material

* revealing the drawbacks of newspapers as sources and giving ways to guard against them

* tracing the development of the British newspaper industry

* showing the type of information that can be found in newspapers and how it can be used

* identifying the best newspapers to start with when researching a particular topic

* suggesting methods to locate the most relevant articles available

* demonstrating techniques for collating, analysing and interpreting information

* showing how to place newspaper reports in their wider context

In addition nine case studies are included, showing how researchers have already made productive use of newspapers to gain insights that were not available from elsewhere.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781473859005
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Publication date: 06/07/2016
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Historian and writer Denise Bates used old newspapers extensively when researching her first two books, Pit Lasses and Breach of Promise to Marry and the new information she discovered added greatly to the existing knowledge about both subjects. Historical Research Using British Newspapers draws on her extensive practical experience of using old newspapers as source material.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Chapter 1 A Brief History of Newspapers in Britain 1

Chapter 2 The News Chain 14

Chapter 3 Content of a Newspaper 25

Chapter 4 Factors affecting Newspaper Research 37

Chapter 5 Issues that affect all Types of Source 49

Chapter 6 Preparing to Research 57

Chapter 7 Which Newspapers to Start With? 63

Chapter 8 Finding Material in On-line Newspapers 70

Chapter 9 Historical Studies using Old Newspapers 81

Chapter 10 Some Data Handling Techniques 90

Chapter 11 Data Handling using a Spreadsheet 106

Chapter 12 Using Spreadsheets in a Historical Study 120

Chapter 13 Illustrations in Newspapers 132

Chapter 14 Using Newspapers with other Sources 140

A Study in Slander 144

Research from Newspaper Sources 156

Appendix 1 Accessing Old Newspapers 164

Appendix 2 Worldwide Newspaper Websites 166

Appendix 3 Other Websites for Researchers 168

Appendix 4 Money, Weights and Measures 169

Appendix 5 Publicising Results 173

Glossary 176

Further Reading 177

Index 179

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