How to do Local History - Softcover

McLean, Gavin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1877372412 ISBN 13: 9781877372414

Publisher: Otago University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Thinking of writing a history? Or commissioning one? Local historians, church and institutional historians, genealogists, thesis-writers, and the people who commission them will welcome How To Do Local History. It is a brief and lively introduction to historical research, writing and publishing by a leading historian. This book explains how to use books and archives, and is full of practical tips on "reading" the landscape, on oral history and on using illustrations effectively. The last chapter takes historians and their clients through the intricacies of internet and conventional publishing, using case studies of real books to explain terminology, scheduling, design, costing and selling.

About this title

About the Author:

Gavin McLean is Senior Historian for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. His many books include The Governors and the co-edited Frontier of Dreams. He has written several local histories and in 2006 edited Oamaru 1878: A Colonial Town and, with Kynan Gentry, Heartlands: New Zealand Historians Write About Places Where History Happened.

About this edition

• Publisher: Otago University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1877372412
• ISBN 13: 9781877372414
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96