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Title: Finding and Using Primary Sources


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Finding and Using Primary Sources
  • Original Sources
  • Your own records oral or manuscript
  • Hard copy/microform reproductions
  • Lancaster University Library
  • National Archives
  • Local Sources near you wherever you live..
  • University Holdings
  • County Record Offices
  • Libraries and Museums
  • Specialist Collections film, photos, oral
    history, businesses, organisations etc

2
Translations and Reproductions in Book Form
  • Lots of these in the library
  • Use FULL SEARCH facility on Library Catalogue
  • Try searching for Documents and Elizabeth or
    Russian or Hitler etc
  • Try State Papers or Privy Council
  • OR Browse the shelves, especially at MWVA for
    regional material or oversize books for other
    parts of the country/world

3
Translations and Reproductions in Book Form
  • Chertham Society (Lancashire and Cheshire many
    reproductions of early modern texts) L6
  • Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society L6
  • Lancashire Parish Register Society L6
  • Catholic Record Society
  • Tudor and Stuart State Papers and Acts of the
    Privy Council MU5 B Floor and more in (and Legal
    History collection)

4
University Library Archives
  • Rare Books Archive
  • Patten Collection of WW2 leaflets (1000)
  • Jack Hylton collection
  • Specific collections eg Quaker, Railway, Local
    Newspapers, History of Lancaster University
  • Microfiche/film collections (search microtext)
    eg..
  • Newspapers New York Times, Illustrated London
    News, Punch
  • Mass Observation (1930s social surveys))
  • Butterworth MSS (1830s)
  • Womens journals of early 20th century
  • Political papers Conservative party Home Office

5
All British Government Reports covering virtually
every aspect of British and Imperial
History Available Pre 1800 and post 1900
Microfiche/card using BOPCRIS for guide 1800-1900
Full Text searchable through Metalib but BOPCRIS
useful summary
6
Parliamentary Papers MicroficheIndex on CD
ROM - ask at library enquiries desk Online
summary of papers from mid 18th late 20th
century at BOPCRIS
7
  • Gaols and houses of correction, England and
    Wales third report
  • Short titleGaols and houses of correction,
    England and Wales
  • Corporate authorHouse of Lords.Select Committee
    on Gaols and Houses of Correction (England and
    Wales)
  • ChairmanDuke of Richmond
  • AbstractThe inspections of the Visiting Justices
    have had a beneficial effect on the state of
    prison discipline. As recommended in the Second
    Report, specific days should be set aside for
    these visits, but for the greatest benefits the
    visits should be 'frequent and unexpected'.Those
    prisons under 'corporate or peculiar
    jurisdictions' found to be unable to impose
    adequate levels of discipline should have their
    prisoners removed to the custody of the County
    Prisons, and the expenses for those prisoners
    should be met by the bodies previously
    responsible. The prison ships, or hulks,
    present special problems. Separation and silence
    are impossible to achieve in the same way as in a
    prison, and the circumstances of the labour
    carried out by convicts on the hulks are less
    likely to lead to reform. The number of boys held
    on the hulks is a cause for concern. Many are
    held for several years, until they have reached
    the age at which they may be transported (14
    years). Their situation leads to further
    corruption. Provision of religious instruction is
    inadequate to address the problem. Convicts
    sentenced to transportation should only be sent
    to the hulks en route to the Penal Colonies, and
    none should stay permanently. Boys should not be
    kept on the hulks at all, and some unused
    barracks or fort should be found to accommodate
    them. The question of secondary punishments
    should be considered by Parliament as soon as
    possible
  • Tables, pictures etcDetails of prisoners held in
    some London prisons, abstracts of answers from
    governors of approximately 90 gaols in England
    and Wales.
  • Date presented etcSigned July, 1835
  • Other featuresReport minutes of evidence
    appendices

8
1800-1900 Full Text searchable through
Metalib but BOPCRIS useful summary
9
Original Manuscript Materials on Microfiche in
the Library
  • Butterworth Reports on Oldham to Manchester
    Newspapers
  • 1830-1842
  • Microfiche specify Microtext in University
    Catalogue

10
On Line Sources available through Metalib
  • EEBO Early English Books On Line
  • ECCO 18th century books
  • Times Digital Archive (1785-1985)
  • Lexis Nexis (Times and other newspapers since
    1985)
  • Film and Sound Online eg Soviet Film on
    Anglo-British Cultural Relations 1956

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On Line Sources Originals and Reproductions
  • Web and CD resources
  • Enrich (150 links to NOF sites)
  • WW1 archive
  • Cartoon Centre (Kent University)
  • Old Bailey On line
  • Historical Directories On line
  • Workhouses
  • Early English Journals
  • PatheNews (20th century newsreels)
  • British History Online (early modern)
  • Use Google but often best sought through
    dedicated gateways which provide links eg
  • History Dept On Line Resources
  • HUMBUL

12
Internet Sources
  • Hallsall Internet Source Books
  • Internet African History Sourcebook
  • Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
  • Internet Global History Sourcebook
  • Internet Indian History Sourcebook
  • Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
  • Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
  • Internet History of Science Sourcebook
  • Internet Women's History Sourcebook
  • People With a History An Online Guide to
    Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History

Netserf Medieval Resources
13
Archives- near you?
  • National Archives
  • Local archives eg county record offices,
    local studies centres
  • University Archives
  • Specialist archives business, film, etc

14
National Archives
  • National Archives Kew
  • British Library (books and manuscripts) St
    Pancras London
  • British Newspaper Library Colindale, Hendon
  • Scotland Edinburgh
  • Wales Aberystwyth
  • Ireland Dublin

These contain national official documents of
whatever sort PLUS a huge amount of other related
materials check their catalogues 9m records at
National Archives
15
Local Archives much Historical Material is kept
locally
Carlisle Public Library (also film of pageant)
16
County Record Offices, Archives and Local Studies
Centre
  • Established from 1940s
  • Primary function to preserve OFFICIAL documents
    related to a county
  • Quarter Sessions
  • County, Borough, Poor Law Union, Parish,
  • Official Organisations Hospitals, Schools, Home
    Guard etc
  • Church records
  • Records of Landed Estates
  • Societies and Businesses
  • Individual Businesses
  • Eg NINE miles of shelved records at Lancashire
    Record

17
County Record Offices, Archives and Local Studies
Centre
  • North West Examples
  • Lancashire Record Office (Preston)
  • Cumbria Archives (Barrow, Kendal, Whitehaven,
    Carlisle)
  • Cheshire (Chester)
  • Merseyside (Liverpool Wirral etc)
  • Manchester (Greater Manchester Record Office,
    Manchester City Archives, John Rylands Library,
    Chethams, Oldham, Bolton, Trafford etc etc)

18
Public Libraries Local Studies Centres
  • The larger libraries hold primary materials,
    usually printed or on microfilm/fiche including
  • Census 1841-1901
  • Local Newspapers and Magazines ( c1800-)
  • Local Trade and Street Directories
  • Maps
  • Printed Guides to the area
  • Occasionally Manuscript Documents (letters etc)
  • Photograph Collections
  • Sometimes they list in their (on line) catalogue
  • Lancashire County Library Catalogue
  • Cumbria On line Catalogue
  • (Try other counties to see if they have .)

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Local Archives Finding out what there is
  • Archon
  • National Register of Archives
  • A2A (Access to Archives)
  • Past Finder (Greater Manchester)
  • AIM25 (London)
  • Newsplan (location of local newspapers)
  • Individual Catalogues on line (through the above
    sites)

20
University Archives
  • Archives Hub

Most universities, but especially the old ones,
have archive collections. Not all are accessible
or easy to use, but it is possible to think of
using some of them ArchivesHub is an online guide
to what is held where including Lancaster
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Specialist Archives
  • Film Moving History A guide to UK film and TV
    archives
  • Pathe News (Cinema Newsreels)
  • Business eg
  • National Cooperative Archive
  • London Transport Museum
  • Oral
  • (Centre for North West Regional Studies in Fylde
    College)
  • NW Sound Archive at Clitheroe
  • Subject Based
  • Imperial War Museum
  • National Maritime Museum

NW Film Archive
22
You need to know how Archivists THINK and
therefore CATALOGUE
  • Most catalogues are NOT subject based like
    libraries and even attempts to include SUBJECT
    searches are not always successful what is a
    subject?
  • Most titles of archive collections do not give
    much of an idea of what they can be used for..
    They catalogue by ORIGIN of source rather than by
    USES whether the KEYWORD you search for is in
    the title is pot-luck. Catalogues
  • Some are on line
  • NONE are complete whether on line or on paper

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Worked Example Gender, Disability and Community
WW1 casualties convalescence (Convalescent
Home Magazine in Lancs Record Office, Preston
secondary sources, web)
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Summing Up
  • Choose something which interests you
  • Be prepared to change subject depending on what
    you find
  • Be realistic in your ambitions dont try to do
    too much FOCUS
  • Consider using primary sources as a way in to
    find a subject find something in university
    library, local to you, or on the web - enjoy the
    search!
  • Then check secondary sources to provide debates,
    questions, context, and structure

25
Advice on Local Sources
  • If you think you might like to use sources in
    this region please let me know before you submit
    your form since I have close contacts with
    several of them and I will try to get back in
    time!
  • Mike Winstanley
  • Email m.winstanley_at_lancaster.ac.uk

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FINISHED!!
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The Welcome Hut
  • Ninety men arrive to-day!
  • Order quickly what is needed!
  • We can never say them nay
  • Though the limit be exceeded
  • When the cake I see their jaws on,
  • I rejoice say Mrs. Dawson.
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