# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- appreciate how historians develop research ideas from different starting points
- understand some of the choices and processes involved in researching the past
- have a critical awareness of the wide range of sources historians use for evidence, beyond the textual to include visual, material and physical
- recognise that historians work within longstanding traditions of learning and knowledge construction.

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