The Dissertation necessarily incorporates each stage of historical research - conceptualising the problem in the context of current knowledge and historiography, identifying and locating appropriate sources, reading them with the technical competence, critical understanding and insight necessary to establish what can be learned from them, and presenting the results in a clear, coherent, cogent and attractive form. It therefore not only has scholarly value in its own right, but also provides a comprehensive test and display of the skills, strengths and limitations of its author.

The Dissertation to be submitted by the notified date, will test the academic and transferable skills you have acquired as an undergraduate student in History.

12 hours of supervision which provides the basis for 288 hours devoted to independent study.

Berry, Ralph The Research Project: How to Write It Routledge, London, 4th Edn. 2000
Black, Jeremy & MacRaild, Donald Studying History Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2nd Edn. 2000
McDowell, W.H. Historical Research: A Guide Longman, London, 2002
O'Leary, Zina The Essential Guide to Doing Research Sage, London, 2004
[Staffordshire University] History Dissertation Handbook
Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 6th Edn. 1996

Level 2 History Dissertation Preparation Plan (AM25028-2) or equivalent.

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