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title: Historiography & Methods
description: Historiography and Methods examines how historians write history and the methodologies they use to interpret the past. Learners will understand how to evaluate primary sources, analyze historical biases, and apply different theoretical frameworks to historical research.
category: humanities
subcategory: history
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/historiography-and-methods
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# Historiography & Methods

Historiography and Methods examines how historians write history and the methodologies they use to interpret the past. Learners will understand how to evaluate primary sources, analyze historical biases, and apply different theoretical frameworks to historical research.

## Available Resources

1 Books • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. AskHistorians Wiki - Historiography

Reference page in the community wiki of AskHistorians, a subreddit where flaired contributors must answer to academic standards with citations. It gathers the forum's accumulated material on historiography: source criticism, method, and how interpretations of the past change.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/historiography/

**Tags:** historiography, historical-method, source-criticism, history

### 2. history.ac.uk/methods

A practical hub for Historiography & Methods, offering guides on source criticism, research design, and writing history, with tutorials and examples to help students analyze evidence and develop historical arguments.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://history.ac.uk/methods

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, history

### 3. clio-infra.eu

Clio-Infra is a research data infrastructure and portal for historical studies. It provides curated datasets, metadata, and documentation, along with tools and tutorials to support historiography and quantitative history methods for long-run global history research.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://clio-infra.eu

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, history

## Books

### 1. The Historian's Craft

**Author:** Marc Bloch

Unfinished methodological essay by a founder of the Annales school, left incomplete when the Nazis executed him in 1944. Bloch defines history as the study of people in time and examines evidence, source criticism, bias and causation.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0394705122?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, history

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