This module is about how we make history. through published case studies across time and place, and based on the Historians' own work at Staffordshire University, you will learn about the natue of history, the importance of historiography, how the past is made, and 're-presented'.

This portfolio of 2,000 words (4 pieces of 500 words) to be submitted by the notified deadline, will demonstrate your understanding of the basic principles required in re-constructing the past and making history.

12 hours of lectures, which provide the framework for the case studies by members of the History team. 12 hours of seminars, which provide the opportunity to clarify your understanding and to debate the issues, underpinned by the independent study.

Jeremy Black and Don MacRaild, Studying History (London, Macmillan, 2nd ed. 2000)
John Tosh, The Pursuit of History (London, Longman 3rd ed. 2002)
Ian Porter & Ian D. Armour, Imperial Germany 1890-1918 (London, Longman 1991)
Owen R. Ashton, W.E. Adams, Chartist, Radical and Journalist (Tyne and Wear, Bewick Pess 1991)
Martin Brown, The Riorgimento in Italy 1790-1870 (in progress)
Clark, Martin, The Italian Risorgimento, London, Longman 1998
Alun Munslow, The New History, Harlow, Pearson 2003
Michael Bentley (ed.) Companion to Historiography, London, Routledge 1997
K. Laybourn, 'The Rise of Labour and the Decline of Liberalism: The State of the Debate', History, vol. 80, no. 259, June 1995, pp. 206-226
Alun Munslow, 'Imagining the Nation: The Frontier Thesis and the Creating of America' in Philip J. Davies (ed.) Representing and Imagining America, Keele, Keele University Press 1996. pp. 15-23
Peter Alter, The German Questions and Europe: A History (London: Arnold 2000)

Recommended Library books, journals and e-resources