useful reading and websites
From PhD to published - http://www.phd2published.com/
Univ of Herts History Lab - http://www.hertshistorylab.weebly.com/
IHR History Lab - http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab and http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab/plus
Thesis whisperer - http://thesiswhisperer.com/
http://patthomson.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/thirteen-reasons-researchers-get-asked-to-write-their-methods-chapter-again/
http://patthomson.wordpress.com/writing-the-thesis/
Books on how to write and research history
Phillips, Estelle M., and Derek Pugh, How to Get a PhD (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 4th ed., 2005).
Swetnam, Derek, Writing your Dissertation: How to Plan, Prepare and Present Successful Work (London: How To Books, 2000).
Dunleavy, Patrick, Authoring a PhD: how to plan, draft, write and finish a doctorial thesis or dissertation (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Curthoys, Ann, and Ann McGrath, How to Write History that People Want to Read (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Jordanova, Ludmilla, History in Practice (London: Hodder Arnold, 2006)
Historiography
Wasson, Ellis, ed., Sources and Debates in Modern British History (Oxford, 2012)
Writing history: theory & practice, edited by Stefan Berger, Heiko Feldner, Kevin Passmore (Arnold, 2003)
HALL, Catherine, 'The State of Modern British History', History Workshop Journal, 72 (2011), 205-211
John Tosh (with Sean Lang), The Pursuit of History: aims, methods and new directions in the study of modern history (5th ed. 2009)
Ludmilla Jordanova, History in Practice (2nd ed, 2006)
Bentley, Michael (ed.), Companion to historiography (London and New York: Routledge, 1997)
Bentley, M., Modernizing England’s past: Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870-1970 (Cambridge, 2006)
Claus, Peter and John Marriott, History: an introduction to theory, method, and practice (Harlow, 2012)
Green, A and K. Troup (eds), The Houses of History: a critical reader in 20th-century history and theory (Manchester, 1999)
Kalela, Jorma, Making History: the Historian and the Uses of the Past (Basingstoke, 2012) see review and author’s response at: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1272
Labour history
MCILROY, John, 'Waving or drowning? British labor history in troubled waters', Labor History, 53:1 (2012) 91-119
KIRK, Neville, 'Challenge, Crisis, and Renewal? Themes in the Labour History of Britain, 1960-2010', Labour History Review, 75:2 (2010) 162-80
Navickas, Katrina, 'What happened to class? New histories of labour and collective action in Britain', Social History [London], 36:2 (2011), 192-204
Economics
DAUNTON, Martin J., 'The Future Direction of British History : Thinking about Economic Cultures', History Workshop Journal, 72 (2011), 222-239
Annales
Clark, Stuart (ed.), The Annales school : critical assessments, 4 vols (London and New York: Routledge, 1999)
Marxist
Kaye, Harvey J., The education of desire : Marxists and the writing of history (Routledge, 1992)
S. H. Rigby, Marxism and History: a Critical Introduction (Manchester, 1998)
Samuel, Raphael, ‘British Marxist Historians, 1880-1980’, New Left Review, 120 (1980)
ELEY, Geoff, 'Marxist historiography', in Berger, Stefan; Feldner, Heiko; Passmore, Kevin (ed.), Writing history : theory & practice (London: Arnold, 2003), pp. 63-82
Local history
Dyer, Christopher; Hopper, Andrew James; Lord, Evelyn; Tringham, Nigel J. (ed.), New directions in local history since Hoskins (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2011)
Beckett, John, 'W. G. Hoskins, the Victoria County History, and the Study of English Local History', Midland History, 36: 1 (2011), 115-127
Cultural
Hunt, L., The new Cultural History (1989)
WALTON, John K., 'New Directions in British Historiography : the Emergence of Cultural History', Revue française de civilisation britannique, 14:4 (2007) 33-44
WINTER, Jay Murray, 'Recent trends in the historiography of Britain and the First World War: cultural history comparative history public history ', in Berghoff, Hartmut; Friedeburg, Robert von (ed.), Change and inertia : Britain under the impact of the Great War (Veröffentlichungen, Arbeitskreis deutsche England-Forschung, 40) (Bodenheim: Philo, 1998)
Gender
EVANS, Mary, 'Doing gender : Gender and women's studies in the twenty first century', Women's Studies International Forum, 34:6 (2011) 603-610
American Historical Review, 113: 5 (Dec 2008), forum on Gender
Alexander, S., Becoming a Woman: Essays in 19th and 20th century Feminist History (NY, 1995)
Bennett J., ‘Women’s history: a study in continuity and change’, Women’s History Review, 2 (1993)
Bennett, J., ‘Feminism and History’, Gender and History, 1/3 (1989)
Kerber, L., 'Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Women's Place: The rhetoric of women's history', Journal of American History, 75, 1, (1988) 9-39.
Bock G., ‘Women’s history and gender history: aspects of an international debate’ (1989) in Historians on History, edited by John Tosh (Harlow, 2000), 144-4
Boydston, Jeanne, 'Gender as a Question of Historical Analysis’, Gender & History, 20:3 (2008), 558-83
Jan Goldstein, ed., Foucault and the writing of history (Oxford, 1994)
Epple, Angelika; Schaser, Angelika (ed.), Gendering historiography : beyond national canons (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2009)
Social History
Joyce, Patrick, ‘What is the Social in Social History?’, Past & Present, 206 (Feb 2010), 213-48
Wilson, Adrian, Rethinking Social History: English Society 1570–1920 and its Interpretation (Manchester, 1993)
'Memory boom'
Eric Langenbacher and Friederike Eigler, ‘Memory Boom or Memory Fatigue in 21st Century Germany?’ German Politics and Society 23: 3 (Fall 2005), 1-15;
Jay Winter, Remembering War: the Great War Between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century (New Haven, 2006)
Journal of Social History, special issue, Vol. 44, No. 4 (summer 2011)
Susannah Radstone, 'Reconceiving Binaries: the Limits of Memory', History Workshop Journal 59(1) (Spring 2005)
imperial/postcolonial
Prakash, Gyan, ‘Orientalism Now’, History and Theory (October 1995)
Williams, Patrick and Laura Chrisman (eds.), ‘Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: An Introduction’, in Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader (1992)
Majumdar, Rochona, Writing Postcolonial History (London, 2010)
BALLANTYNE, Tony, 'The changing shape of the modern British empire and its historiography', Historical Journal, 53:2 (2010) 429-52
Hall, Catherine & McClelland, Keith (eds.), Race, nation and empire : making histories, 1750 to the present (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010)
ANSARI, Humayun, 'The Muslim World in British Historical Imaginations : "Re-thinking Orientalism', British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 38:1 (2011) 73-93
KOPF, David, 'The historiography of British orientalism 1772-1992', in Cannon, Garland H.; Brine, Kevin R. (ed.), Objects of enquiry : the life, contributions, and influences of Sir William Jones (1746-1794) (New York: New York University Press, 1995)
SAID, Edward William, Orientalism (London and New York, 1978)
Microhistory
PUTNAM, Lara, 'To Study the Fragments/Whole : Microhistory and the Atlantic World', Journal of Social History, 39:3 (2006) 615-30
BOULTON, Jeremy, 'Microhistory in early modern London : John Bedford (1601-1667)' Continuity and Change,22:1 (2007) 113-41
SNELL K D M, Parish and belonging : community, identity, and welfare in England and Wales, 1700-1950(Cambridge University Press, 2006)
SNELL K D M, 'Settlement, poor law and the rural historian : new approaches and opportunities', Rural History 3:2 (1992) 145-72
Univ of Herts History Lab - http://www.hertshistorylab.weebly.com/
IHR History Lab - http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab and http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab/plus
Thesis whisperer - http://thesiswhisperer.com/
http://patthomson.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/thirteen-reasons-researchers-get-asked-to-write-their-methods-chapter-again/
http://patthomson.wordpress.com/writing-the-thesis/
Books on how to write and research history
Phillips, Estelle M., and Derek Pugh, How to Get a PhD (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 4th ed., 2005).
Swetnam, Derek, Writing your Dissertation: How to Plan, Prepare and Present Successful Work (London: How To Books, 2000).
Dunleavy, Patrick, Authoring a PhD: how to plan, draft, write and finish a doctorial thesis or dissertation (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Curthoys, Ann, and Ann McGrath, How to Write History that People Want to Read (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Jordanova, Ludmilla, History in Practice (London: Hodder Arnold, 2006)
Historiography
Wasson, Ellis, ed., Sources and Debates in Modern British History (Oxford, 2012)
Writing history: theory & practice, edited by Stefan Berger, Heiko Feldner, Kevin Passmore (Arnold, 2003)
HALL, Catherine, 'The State of Modern British History', History Workshop Journal, 72 (2011), 205-211
John Tosh (with Sean Lang), The Pursuit of History: aims, methods and new directions in the study of modern history (5th ed. 2009)
Ludmilla Jordanova, History in Practice (2nd ed, 2006)
Bentley, Michael (ed.), Companion to historiography (London and New York: Routledge, 1997)
Bentley, M., Modernizing England’s past: Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870-1970 (Cambridge, 2006)
Claus, Peter and John Marriott, History: an introduction to theory, method, and practice (Harlow, 2012)
Green, A and K. Troup (eds), The Houses of History: a critical reader in 20th-century history and theory (Manchester, 1999)
Kalela, Jorma, Making History: the Historian and the Uses of the Past (Basingstoke, 2012) see review and author’s response at: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1272
Labour history
MCILROY, John, 'Waving or drowning? British labor history in troubled waters', Labor History, 53:1 (2012) 91-119
KIRK, Neville, 'Challenge, Crisis, and Renewal? Themes in the Labour History of Britain, 1960-2010', Labour History Review, 75:2 (2010) 162-80
Navickas, Katrina, 'What happened to class? New histories of labour and collective action in Britain', Social History [London], 36:2 (2011), 192-204
Economics
DAUNTON, Martin J., 'The Future Direction of British History : Thinking about Economic Cultures', History Workshop Journal, 72 (2011), 222-239
Annales
Clark, Stuart (ed.), The Annales school : critical assessments, 4 vols (London and New York: Routledge, 1999)
Marxist
Kaye, Harvey J., The education of desire : Marxists and the writing of history (Routledge, 1992)
S. H. Rigby, Marxism and History: a Critical Introduction (Manchester, 1998)
Samuel, Raphael, ‘British Marxist Historians, 1880-1980’, New Left Review, 120 (1980)
ELEY, Geoff, 'Marxist historiography', in Berger, Stefan; Feldner, Heiko; Passmore, Kevin (ed.), Writing history : theory & practice (London: Arnold, 2003), pp. 63-82
Local history
Dyer, Christopher; Hopper, Andrew James; Lord, Evelyn; Tringham, Nigel J. (ed.), New directions in local history since Hoskins (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2011)
Beckett, John, 'W. G. Hoskins, the Victoria County History, and the Study of English Local History', Midland History, 36: 1 (2011), 115-127
Cultural
Hunt, L., The new Cultural History (1989)
WALTON, John K., 'New Directions in British Historiography : the Emergence of Cultural History', Revue française de civilisation britannique, 14:4 (2007) 33-44
WINTER, Jay Murray, 'Recent trends in the historiography of Britain and the First World War: cultural history comparative history public history ', in Berghoff, Hartmut; Friedeburg, Robert von (ed.), Change and inertia : Britain under the impact of the Great War (Veröffentlichungen, Arbeitskreis deutsche England-Forschung, 40) (Bodenheim: Philo, 1998)
Gender
EVANS, Mary, 'Doing gender : Gender and women's studies in the twenty first century', Women's Studies International Forum, 34:6 (2011) 603-610
American Historical Review, 113: 5 (Dec 2008), forum on Gender
Alexander, S., Becoming a Woman: Essays in 19th and 20th century Feminist History (NY, 1995)
Bennett J., ‘Women’s history: a study in continuity and change’, Women’s History Review, 2 (1993)
Bennett, J., ‘Feminism and History’, Gender and History, 1/3 (1989)
Kerber, L., 'Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Women's Place: The rhetoric of women's history', Journal of American History, 75, 1, (1988) 9-39.
Bock G., ‘Women’s history and gender history: aspects of an international debate’ (1989) in Historians on History, edited by John Tosh (Harlow, 2000), 144-4
Boydston, Jeanne, 'Gender as a Question of Historical Analysis’, Gender & History, 20:3 (2008), 558-83
Jan Goldstein, ed., Foucault and the writing of history (Oxford, 1994)
Epple, Angelika; Schaser, Angelika (ed.), Gendering historiography : beyond national canons (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2009)
Social History
Joyce, Patrick, ‘What is the Social in Social History?’, Past & Present, 206 (Feb 2010), 213-48
Wilson, Adrian, Rethinking Social History: English Society 1570–1920 and its Interpretation (Manchester, 1993)
'Memory boom'
Eric Langenbacher and Friederike Eigler, ‘Memory Boom or Memory Fatigue in 21st Century Germany?’ German Politics and Society 23: 3 (Fall 2005), 1-15;
Jay Winter, Remembering War: the Great War Between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century (New Haven, 2006)
Journal of Social History, special issue, Vol. 44, No. 4 (summer 2011)
Susannah Radstone, 'Reconceiving Binaries: the Limits of Memory', History Workshop Journal 59(1) (Spring 2005)
imperial/postcolonial
Prakash, Gyan, ‘Orientalism Now’, History and Theory (October 1995)
Williams, Patrick and Laura Chrisman (eds.), ‘Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: An Introduction’, in Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader (1992)
Majumdar, Rochona, Writing Postcolonial History (London, 2010)
BALLANTYNE, Tony, 'The changing shape of the modern British empire and its historiography', Historical Journal, 53:2 (2010) 429-52
Hall, Catherine & McClelland, Keith (eds.), Race, nation and empire : making histories, 1750 to the present (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010)
ANSARI, Humayun, 'The Muslim World in British Historical Imaginations : "Re-thinking Orientalism', British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 38:1 (2011) 73-93
KOPF, David, 'The historiography of British orientalism 1772-1992', in Cannon, Garland H.; Brine, Kevin R. (ed.), Objects of enquiry : the life, contributions, and influences of Sir William Jones (1746-1794) (New York: New York University Press, 1995)
SAID, Edward William, Orientalism (London and New York, 1978)
Microhistory
PUTNAM, Lara, 'To Study the Fragments/Whole : Microhistory and the Atlantic World', Journal of Social History, 39:3 (2006) 615-30
BOULTON, Jeremy, 'Microhistory in early modern London : John Bedford (1601-1667)' Continuity and Change,22:1 (2007) 113-41
SNELL K D M, Parish and belonging : community, identity, and welfare in England and Wales, 1700-1950(Cambridge University Press, 2006)
SNELL K D M, 'Settlement, poor law and the rural historian : new approaches and opportunities', Rural History 3:2 (1992) 145-72