Course overview
This course provides students the opportunity to explore how we produce narratives about the past. It asks both how academic historians have theorised the production of narratives of events from the disparate source materials we use and offers a discussion of the variety of genres available to historians. The latter includes autobiography and biography, historical fiction, family histories, art, novels, film and television.
During the course, students will not only explore how we create history for a variety of types of audience but will have the opportunity to produce different types of historical writing/ creative productions themselves. The course is particularly useful for students who wish to develop their historical writing/creative practice, and to use their research skills to create narratives of the past.
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