Doing History bridges the gap between the way history is studied in school or as represented in the media and the way it is studied at university level. Clearly structured and accessibly written, it is an essential volume for all students embarking on the study of history.

Part 1: What is History? 1. Introduction 2. Pre-Modern Historians on History 3. Academic History Part 2: What Historians Do 4. Using Sources 5. Creating Historical Knowledge 6. Writing Histories. Historical Interpretations and Imagination Part 3: Whose History? 7. The Power of History 8. Histories from Another Perspective 9. Popular History Part 4: History Today 10. Public History 11. Liberating History Bibliography

Mark Donnelly is Associate Professor at St Mary's University, Twickenham, London, UK. He writes about history theory, public history and collective memory. He co-edited Mad Dogs and Englishness: Popular Music and English Identities (2017). He also co-wrote Liberating Histories (2019) with Claire Norton.

Claire Norton is Associate Professor at St Mary's University, Twickenham, London, UK. She is interested in how past-talk is used to articulate, legitimise ad challenge identities, institutions and political discourses. She has written books on Ottoman manuscript textualities, Islamic-Christian interactions in the early-modern world and history theory.