What do historians do?
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Historians work in a tradition
    • 1.1 Landscape history
    • 1.2 Land management
    • 1.3 Travel writing
    • 1.4 Enter the historians
    • 1.5 Summary of Section 1
  • 2 Historians use objects (sometimes)
    • 2.1 Reasons for bottle feeding
    • 2.2 Advice on infant feeding
    • 2.3 Moving through time …
    • 2.4 Babies and the state
    • 2.5 Summary of Section 2
  • 3 Historians challenge public understanding of the past
    • 3.1 The ‘Bloody Code’
    • 3.2 Historians and the Bloody Code
    • 3.3 Revisionists, post-revisionists and the decline of hanging
    • 3.4 Sentenced to death: the end of the road?
    • 3.5 Summary of Section 3
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Acknowledgements

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