Studying history at the Master level (read before class)

• Marius, Richard; Page, Melvin E., A short guide to writing about history, 6th ed., New York, Pearson/Longman, c2007 (Chapter 1.)
• Thompson, E.P., The Moral Economy of the English Crowd, in Past and Present, 1971 ((available in Swedish as "De engelska massornas moraliska ekonomi" in Herremakt och folklig kultur, 1983).)

Source criticism/Källkritik (read before class)

• Historisk tidskrift 2005:2 temanummer om källkritik, Historisk tidskrift (Swedish students.)
• Mc Dowell, W.H., Historical Research. A Guide, 2002 (p. 54–76, 109–125.and/or)
• Tosh, John, The pursuit of history: aims, methods and new directions in the study of modern history, Rev. 3. ed., Harlow, Longman, 2002 (p. 83–107. For English students.)

Historical concepts and conceptual history/Begreppshistoria (read before class)

• Koselleck, Reinhart, Futures past: on the semantics of historical time, [New ed.], New York, Chichester, Columbia University Press, 2004 (Chapters 2–4 (available in Swedish as Erfarenhet, tid och historia (2004)) p. 53–164.)

Visit to the archives (read before visit)

• Marius, Richard; Page, Melvin E., A short guide to writing about history, 6th ed., New York, Pearson/Longman, c2007 (Chapter 4.)

How to write the Master thesis (read before class)

• Marius, Richard; Page, Melvin E., A short guide to writing about history, 6th ed., New York, Pearson/Longman, c2007 (Chapters 2 and 3.)
• Ståhle, Theresia, Thesis. (Swedish students. Can be obtained from the department.)
• Taylor, Graham, Thesis. (English students. Can be obtained from the department.)

The history of writing (1) (read before class)

• Iggers, Georg G.; Wang, Q. Edward; Mukherjee, Supriya., A global history of modern historiography, 1st ed., Harlow, England ;a New York, Pearson Longman, 2008 (p. 1–116, 119–132.)

The history of writing (2) (read before class)

• Iggers, Georg G.; Wang, Q. Edward; Mukherjee, Supriya., A global history of modern historiography, 1st ed., Harlow, England ;a New York, Pearson Longman, 2008 (p. 175–193, 250–401.)

How to use previous research (read before class)

• Hunt, Margaret R., The middling sort: commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1996 (p. 1–21. English and Swedish students.)
• Maza, Sarah C., Private lives and public affairs: the causes célèbres of prerevolutionary France, Berkeley, University of California Press, cop. 1993 (p. 1–17. English students.)
• Österberg, Eva, Gränsbygd under krig: ekonomiska, demografiska och administrativa förhållanden i sydvästra Sverige under och efter nordiska sjuårskriget, Lund, Gleerups, 1971 (p. 13–19. Swedish students.)