1st Edition
History Beyond the Text A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources
Introduction. 1. Fine art: the creative image Sarah Barber 2. The Cartoon: the image as critique Frank Palmeri 3. The Photograph: the still image Derek Sayer 4. Film and Television: the moving image Jeffrey Richards 5. Music: the creative sound Burton W. Peretti 6. Oral testimony: the sound of memory Corinna Peniston-Bird 7. The Internet: virtual space Dennis Trinkle 8. Landscape: the configured space Tom Williamson 9. Architecture: the built object Christopher Long 10 Material Culture: the object Adrienne D. Hood
Biography
Sarah Barber is Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Lancaster University. Her publications include Regicide and Republicanism: Politics and Ethics in the English Revolution (1998) and A Revolutionary Rogue: Henry Marten and the English Republic (2000).
Corinna Peniston-Bird is Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Lancaster University. Her publications include A Soldier and a Woman: Women in the Military (co-edited with G. J. DeGroot, 2000) and Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War (with Penny Summerfield, 2007)
‘This book has a good feel to it. Pictures, diagrams and cartoons are used effectively and the chapters are brief and to the point. Result – my awareness of the sources is enhanced, and I can now hope to become a better historian.’ – SATH History Teaching Review
