A Practical Guide to Studying History - Annotated Bibliographies
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Annotated Bibliographies

Evaluate, organise, and review literature like a professional historian.

An annotated bibliography is a list of sources accompanied by a brief annotation for each source that explains its contents and usefulness.

Annotated bibliographies are a great way to find out what books and articles might be most useful when researching a particular topic. These examples all relate to a particular chapter in A Practical Guide to Studying History.

Some university modules (often independent research modules) might ask you to create your own annotated bibliography. These examples can be used as models for this form of assessment.

1. Activism

2. Archives

3. Beyond Text: Objects as Historical Sources

4. Choosing Modules: Risks and Rewards

5. Decolonizing History

6. Doing History in a Digital World

7. Evidence and Interpretation

8. Exhibiting History

9. Historical Research for Undergraduates

10. History and Heritage

11. History and Policy

12. History in Schools

13. Identities

14. Nations

15. Periodization

16. Reading and Writing History

17. Sexualities

18. Sources for Essays

19. Taking History into the World

20. Using Primary Sources

21. What is Historiography?