How Historians Work: Methods, Evidence, Truth and Objectivity

What this note covers

1. Method as a set of questions put to evidence
2. From Ranke to the empiricist tradition
3. Carr, Elton and the problem of facts
4. The postmodern challenge and the defence of truth
5. Expanding methods beyond the document
6. Certainty: a question you should expect

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