\[ **BT: [[home]]** ] --- # history - see also: - [[prehistory]] - [[family history]] Note: [[It can be unhelpful to think of history as being divided into set 'eras'; the past was active and fluid.]][^1] ## historiography > ‘Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic by using particular sources, techniques of research, and theoretical approaches to the interpretation of documentary sources.’[^2] ### methodologies [[For most historians, research is not only the most time-consuming task; it is also the most enjoyable.]][^3] [[When considering historical sources, sometimes the absence of information is, in itself, informative (i.e. a 'negative fact').]][^4] - [[Goutor’s card-file system of note-taking]] ## areas of specific interest - see: - [[Anglo-Saxons]] - [[history--Australia]] - [[history--China]] - [[history--Europe]] - [[history--West Asia]] ## auxiliary disciplines - see: - [[anthropology]] - [[archaeology]] - [[family history]] - [[geography]] --- ## glossary - [[three-age system]] [^1]: John Moreland, quoted in Alexandra Lester-Makin, *[[Lester-Makin, Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World, 2019|The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery]]* (Osbow Books, 2019), chapter 1. EPUB. [^2]: ‘Historiography’, Wikipedia, last edited 15 March 2025, 09:28 (UTC), <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography>. [^3]: Jacques Goutor, *[[Goutor, The Card-File System of Note-Taking, 1980|The Card-File System of Note-Taking]]* (Ontario Historical Society, 1980), p. 8. Internet Archive, <https://archive.org/details/cardfilesystemof0000gout>. [^4]: Jacques Goutor, *[[Goutor, The Card-File System of Note-Taking, 1980|The Card-File System of Note-Taking]]* (Ontario Historical Society, 1980), p. 29. Internet Archive, <https://archive.org/details/cardfilesystemof0000gout>.