TY  - BOOK
AU  - Summerfield,Penny
TI  - Histories of the self: personal narratives and historical practice 
SN  - 9780415576192
U1  - 809.93592 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge, 
KW  - History
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Letters
KW  - Letter writing
KW  - Diaries
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Oral history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Historians' uses of letters -- Historians and the diary -- Autobiography, the memoir and the historian -- Oral history and historical practice -- Representativeness -- Conclusion
N2  - "Histories of the Self introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries, letters, oral history and memoirs as sources that give access to intimate aspects of the past. Supported by case studies, it is essential reading for students and researchers interested in how personal testimony has been and can be used by historians"--
ER  -