HIS 225:

Women & Work in Britain 1700-1918

Pursuing Primary Sources with Passion and Purpose!

Getting Started

  • What is a primary source?

    • What are examples?

  • What are some challenges we may face?

  • Consider a strategy

Where to Look

  • Italicized = part of larger database

  • Serendipity and creativity

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Consider this item from a digitized scrapbook from the college's archives and special collections.

Look at the record.

Click on the newspaper clipping.

How do the record and the newspaper clipping relate to each other?

What could inspire you to find this type of source?