Historical research using British newspapers / Denise Bates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bates, Denise, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Research--Great Britain.

History.

British newspapers.

History--Research.

Great Britain--History--Sources.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Sources.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2016.

Summary:

"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" -- Amazon.com

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781473859005

147385900X

OCLC:

947149864

Publisher Number:

99970224581