How To Do Local History: Research * Write * Publish a Guide for Historians And Clients

Gavin McLean

ISBN 10: 1877372412 / ISBN 13: 9781877372414

Published by Otago University Press, New Zealand, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How To Do Local History: Research * Write * Publish a Guide for Historians And Clients
• Publisher: Otago University Press, New Zealand
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1877372412
• ISBN 13: 9781877372414
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 600 grams
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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 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.