How to Write History that People Want to Read
Drawn from decades of experience, this is a concise and highly practical guide to writing history. Aimed at all kinds of people who write history academic historians, public historians, professional historians, family historians and students of all levels
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ow to Write History that People Want to Read Ann Curthoys Professor of History, University of Sydney
Ann McGrath Professor of History, Australian National University
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0 Contents Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Introduction: Navigating history in the 21st century . . . . . . . . 1 1 Which history to tell? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2 Who is your history for? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3 Crying in the archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 4 History in 3D: Visual, oral and material sources . . . . . . . . 80 5 How to avoid writer s block. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 6 Once upon a time: Beginnings and endings . . . . . . . . . . . 117 7 Narrative, plot, action! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 8 Styling pasts for presents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 9 Character and emotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 10 Footnot
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