How can historians of small spaces and cities focus on local events and issues and at the same time carry on conversations with peers in a disciplinar... [more]
Building on recent works that question a simplistic, White narrative of the history of academic oral history, this article focuses on the labors of Bl... [more]
The history of medical bibliography is considered an exclusive prerogative of research for historians of bibliography, historians of book and libraries but not a matter of interest to medical historians. Actually, it represents a high-level potential rese
This article discusses the idea of distant reading and explores the ways in which it can be conducted in research. It focuses especially on how distant reading can contribute to the study of cultural history, which is often regarded as a domain of close r
Feminist activists have always been invested in the processes of history-making, drawing inspiration from their predecessors and ensuring their own historical legacies. For participants at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, history played an important r
The question, what constitutes the methodology of the legal history research, is answered in different ways. One is that it is the same as for general history: writing on history according to a set of rules which constitute its methodology, because in the
This article showcases and explains the process, and the rationale behind the Singapore Fashion Histories website -- an iterative collaborative fashion media site that is dedicated to understanding Singapore's national fashion history. Sponsored by the N
This article interrogates how oral historians can meaningfully participate in rapid response research after disasters as part of both short- and long-term collection efforts. The article first examines the known barriers to setting up rapid response oral
In this article, my goal is to reveal the importance and potential of global history, an approach that is generally neglected in media and film history literature. The main characteristics of global history are de-centralizing history, taking a wide spati
This essay highlights the author's methodology for taking a feminist approach to doing oral history at a large university-particularly her efforts to involve the wider university community in the project of creating an inclusive and multi-perspectival in
How do we approach textual sources within cultural history? Do we 'think' about sources and 'work' with them in similar ways? Is it possible to identify a specific methodology among cultural historians? Cultural history is both a subfield and a discip
Theo Hermans's Translation and History: A Textbook offers an insightful, clear, and sophisticated account of debates in translation history as a transdisciplinary field that remained, until recently, at the margins of historiographical debates. It discus
This article presents a reflective review of the challenges of interviewing hard-to-reach and marginalised groups when employing an oral history methodology. Using Belfast, Northern Ireland, as a case study, the article reflects on the significance of soc
Less than twenty years after computer science was able to establish itself as an academic discipline, a group of US computer scientists organized a conference on the history of programming languages. The conference is distinguished from other self-histori
Over the last decade, architectural history has responded to the climate crisis by strongly integrating environmental topics into its research agenda. The change has been so dramatic that it can be referred to as a paradigm shift within the discipline. Th
This essay provides a synthetic overview of the preceding articles in this special issue on Feminist Histories, situating them within the historical literature that helped shape the field of U.S. women's history. Drawing out recurrent ideas across topics