CATALOGUE
First, consult the catalogue.
This may seem obvious, but many students fail to fully investigate
the resources of our own library.
Using guided
keyword search you can search for your historian,
discipline or theory as a subject.
Any keywords inSubject heading can be especially useful
if you use terms such as country paired with the term historiography.
e.g. ASIA HISTORIOGRAPHY ( click all of these)
SOVIET HISTORIOGRAPHY ( click all
of these)
Subject Heading, and searching on the term HISTORIOGRAPHY can
also be fruitful for general works on this subject. If you sort your list
of results, by date (latest first), you will find the most recent
publications displayed first.
Any keywords is useful for detecting your historian's name
in edited collections of essays etc.
To search for all the books by a particular author, or to look at the
holdings of other libraries, follow the links on my History
at its broadest page, in the section Books
-Databases
We can also undertake searches for you on KINETICA, which lists
holdings of libraries Australia-wide.
DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
Ref 907.203 C26b
Blackwell dictionary of historians. ed. J. Cannon
1988.
Ref 300.3 O94b
The Blackwell dictionary of twentieth-century social thought.
ed. W. Outhwaite, 1994
Ref 300.1 T944b
Blackwell companion to social theory. ed. B. S. Turner.
1996
Ref 903 C297m
Carper, N.G. The meaning of history: a dictionary of quotations.
1991
Ref 907.2 B477c
Companion to historiography. ed. M. Bentley. 1997.
Ref 907.203 B789e
Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing. ed. K.
Boyd.
2 vols. 1999.
Ref 907.2 H894f
Fifty key thinkers on history, Marnie Hughes-Warrington.
2000
Ref 907.203 W913g
Global encyclopedia of historical writing. ed. D.R. Woolf. 2
vols. 1998
Ref 300.1 L4459f
Lechte, J. Fifty key contemporary thinkers, from structuralism to
postmodernity. 1994
Ref 907.2 B678g
Great historians from antiquity to 1800: an international dictionary.
ed. L. Boia. 1989.
Ref 907.2 B67Sgrn
Great historians of the modern age: an international dictionary.
ed.L. Boia. 1991.
Ref 901.03 R614d
Ritter, H. Dictionary of concepts in history. 1986.
Ref 973.072022 S283a
Scanlon, J. American women historians, 1700s-1990s : a biographical
dictionary. 1996
Ref 306.03 S799e
Stearns, P.N. Encyclopedia of social history. 1994.
Many other historical dictionaries have entries for historians:
Browse in your subject area in the Reference Collection, eg:.
The Historical dictionary of France from the Restoration to the Second
Empire
(Ref 944.06 N522h) has an article on J.N.A. Thierry.
BIOGRAPHY
Information is sometimes needed about a particular historian's life
and other interests.
Often these details are easier to find after the person's
death, through obituaries.
To locate obituaries, first establish the year of death and then
check the following, depending on the historian's nationality.
International
Ref 920 C761
Contemporary authors. 1962-
Ref 920.016 K55p
People in world history : an index to biographies in history journals
and dissertations covering all countries of the world except Canada and
the U.S. ed. S. K. Kinnell, 2 vols, 1989. (Not very many historians
are included in this index.)
It is sometimes worth searching newspapers for recent information about
your historians, especially obituaries. Easy access is provided by newspaper
indexes.
British
Ref 920 D55
Dictionary of national biography. ed. L. Stephen
63 vols. 1885-1900 and supplements
People have to be dead to be in it!
Ref 920.5 O12
Obituaries from The Times. 1951-56, 1961-70,1971-77
Ref O5 T8a
Times index 1790-
1790-1905 on CD-ROM: Palmers
index to the Times Access is only available within the Barr Smith
Library, on Machine 331, behind the Information desk.
Ref 920.5 W62
Who's who. 1914 - (imperfect)
Ref 920.5 W62a
Who was who : a companion to Who's who, containing the biographies
of those who died.........
v.1 (1897/1916) - v.9 (1991/1995)
Index 1897/1990
American
Ref 920 N532
The New York times obituaries index . 1970-1980
or
Ref 05 N53y
The New York times index 1851-
Ref 920.5 W62am
Who's who in America. 1914 - (imperfect)
Ref/ 920.5 W62amer
Who was who in America. v.1 (1897-1942) - v.12 (1996
-1998)
Historical volumes
1607-1896
Index
1607-1998
Australia
Ref 920 W62au
Who's who in Australia. 1906-
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Ref 907.2016 B619h
Birkos, A.S. Historiography, method, history teaching: a bibliography
books and articles in English, 1965-1973. 1975. Indudes sections under:
Historiography and Philosophy of teaching;
Broad genres (e.g. medical/business/economic history);
Country.
Ref 907.2016 K55h
Kinell, S.K. Historiography; an annotated bibliography of journal
articles, books, and dissertations. 1987. 2v.
Well set out, arranged by major fields and schools, with a section
on individual historians. Includes detailed subject index and abstracts
of articles in the style of Historical abstracts.
Ref 907.2 F761s
Pok, Attila. A selected bibliography of modern historiography.
1992 .
19th and 20th century historiography. Arranged by country, and
also has index of persons.
Ref 907.016 R524s
Richardson, R.C. The study of history; a bibliographical guide.
1988.
Indudes a general section with subsections by country. The rest is
arranged by period. The twentieth century section indudes topics such as
Economic history, Women's history etc. 19th and 20th century sections
have a section on individual historians.
Ref 907.2016 S834h
Stephens, L.D. Historiography : a bibliography. 1975.
Books and articles on historians from Greek and Roman times.
Arranged in 3 main sections: Theories of history, Historiography and
Historical methods.
The second section includes 'Studies of historians'. Not
arranged by discipline or country.
Ref 941.0072 W337w
Watson, C.A. The writing of history in Britain: a bibliography of
post-1945 writings about British historians and biographers. 1982.
INDEXES TO JOURNAL ARTICLES
APAIS
on the AUSTROM database for Australian journal articles.
Also look at :
1. Ref 994.0016 I38
Index to journal articles on Australian history, comp.T. Hogan.1976?
Covers to 1973. Continued by:
2. Ref 994.0016 AI38
Index to journal articles on Australian history for 1974-1988
Expanded Academic ASAP,
1980-
Historical
Abstracts 1971-
see also the printed version (1955-) at Ref 905 H5
Covers non-US history from 1450.
In the hard copy each issue of section of Section A indudes Part I
(General) . This section incorporates articles and books etc. on methodology,
historiography and philosophy of history. The subject index also indudes
Historians and Historiography as major indexing terms, subarranged by either
historian or topic.
Ref 973.05 A5i2
America: history and life. 1964-
Part VI (History, the Humanities and Social sciences)
includes historiography and methodology.
Historiography sub-arranged by topic is a major index term in
its subject index.
Ref 973.05 W95
Writings on American history. 1974-
See index under General: The historical profession, and
Historiography and methodology.
The
Royal Historical Society bibliography on CD-ROM: the history of Britain,
Ireland, and the British overseas. Available on achine 332, behind
the Information desk. Access is only available within the Library.
in print:
Ref 941.006 R888
Royal Historical Society. Annual bibliography of British and Irish
history. 1975-
Part A Auxiliary includes Section C Historiography.
See also historiography in the subject index.
Bibliography
of Asian studies. 1971-
Ref 944.005 B582
Bibliographie annuelle de l'histoire de la France.
The first section, Manuels generaux.... has a subsection
Historiographie.
All other topics have Etudes generales as a subheading for historiography.
Web
of science citation database
Not what it seems! This resource contains three citations indexes,
including: Arts & humanities citation index and the Social
sciences citation index.
These indexes allow you to search not only by keyword subject
but by cited author.
It is possible to search for articles which refer to your historian.
PCI (Periodicals
Contents Index). 1800-1990
BOOK REVIEWS
In addition to the standard history indexes and abstracts (listed
above) there are other useful tools listed in Finding
book reviews. Don't forget to first establish the exact (first
edition) publication date for the title you are searching. A few key sources
of book reviews are:
International
Ref 028.1 F219c
Combined retrospective index to book reviews in scholarly journals
1886-1974.
Expanded
Academic ASAP, 1980-
Ref 011.05 B72
Book review digest. 1905-
Ref 011.05 B724
Book review index. 1965-
Ref 300.5 S6785
Social sciences index (and its predecesors) 1907-
Ref 05 H9195
Humanities index (and its predecesors) 1907-
PCI (Periodicals
Contents Index). 1800-1990
Australian
Australian book reviews are difficult to locate because APAIS
specifically excludes them. However, the odd one occasionally slips through,
so have a go anyway.
Try:
Ref 011.05 I379
Index to Australian book reviews. 1965-1981
Ref 994.0016 I38
Index to journal articles on Australian history: to 1973, 1974-1988
Has a book reviews section at the end of each volume.
Ref 05 A926.2
Australian book review. 1978- (1961-1973 in Main
Collection)
Ref 05 A9383
Australian women's book review. 1989-
Some recent issues are available online.
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