This resource provides a brief introduction to writing in the field of History through the lens of threshold concepts. It includes: An overview of what writing characteristics are valued in History ...

Schoolchild’s homework in Greek on a wax tablet, Egypt, 2nd century AD (copyright the British Library) LONDON — A 2,000-year-old wax tablet bears inscriptions of the Greek homework of an Egyptian ...

History isn’t just the study of distant past. We, too, are living through history, and I’m convinced that we’d benefit enormously from understanding how our own time fits into the broader sweep of ...

Introduction : History's changing fortunes -- The rise and fall of cultural theories -- The challenge of globalization -- Rethinking society and the self -- New purposes, new paradigms "With history ...

This quick-reference guide provides a practical introduction to typical history assignments, exercising critical reading skills, evaluating and documenting sources, writing effective history papers, ...

Introduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood -- What is writing? -- Writing with signs -- Categories and features of writing -- Some general issues in the study of writing -- ...

THE witty remark of Dumas, that Lamartine had raised history to the dignity of romance, would have appealed to Thomas Buckle, who was much occupied with reducing it to the level of a science. Critics ...