Overview

This module builds on existing student experience with primary sources. It encourages deeper critical evaluation of historical evidence and how postgraduate historians can select and utilise primary sources to underpin their chosen research projects.

This module will be composed of: - Cross-period sessions - Separate Medieval & Early Modern and Modern & Contemporary history sessions from which students can pick.

Learning Outcomes

• Appraise their own abilities as information searchers and users with the confidence to transfer these skills to their own research.

• Assess the role which different kinds of source can play in historical enquiry

• Compose new research conclusions developed from an original approach to source materials

• Evaluate the problems involved in the use of different kinds of historical sources.