Many digital archives of newspapers, historical documents, etc. contain useful research guides and search tips. AM has published AM Research Skills, a research methods guide which is linked below. The Library has a good collection of printed research methods guides, a selection of which is outlined below.
Please let me know if you need advice or guidance on research skills!
Introduces readers to a wide range of research methods for use in English Studies, with a focus on final-year undergraduates, postgraduates taking Masters degrees and PhDs students of 19th- and 20th-century Literary Studies.
A useful introduction to critical editing, philology, paleography, manuscript studies, publishing, publishing history and the history of the book.
Shows how to identify, find, and evaluate both primary and secondary sources for your own writing assignments.
An introduction to the techniques and methods of reading digital material for research.
