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Historical Resources Feature Writer: Lito Apostolakou

Learn about how to find and draw information from a variety of historical resources: national archives and records, online collections, historical photographs and images, travel journals, surveys, historic buildings, artifacts, oral histories.

Articles in this section explore a variety of themes including aspects of the US archives; the origin of everyday expressions; where to find historical anatomy illustrations; online collections of historical images; historical film and video clip archives; oral history resources and methodological perspectives.

Contributors in Historical Resources present primary and secondary sources that can be drawn upon for historical research and deal with aspects of historical methodology and oral history.


Feature Writer Articles in Historical Resources

 		Portable Notebooks and Writing Technology
How did people write before the invention of portable notebook computers? Writing tablets or wipe boards were often used in Renaissance England.
"How To" Trade Secrets Revealed
Venetian glass, hair colour oil, marbling paper and male aphrodisiac are a few of the secret recipes that feature in 16th century historical sources.
Historical Aerial Photography from WWII
Aerial WWII photos from the Bridge Over the River Kwai, part of an invaluable Scottish photograph archive, are available online.
Victorian Culinary Delights in Dickens Books
The rituals and culinary delights of afternoon tea and Victorian dining as detailed in Dickens novels contribute to historical knowledge of 19th-century material culture.
History of the Arabian Nights
The manuscripts and print editions of the Arabian Nights have a long history as do the One Thousand and One tales of Shahrazad.
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Contributing Articles in Historical Resources

 		Modernism as a Break from Previous Traditions
The principal reasons for the creation of the modernist literary movement was a need for redefining paradigms and for separating itself from the romantic past.
Valuable Internet Research Tools
World Digital Library, Internet History Sourcebooks Project, and Avalon Project are Internet research tools to help students write quality essays and research papers.
The Obscure Origins of Christmas
Christians are absolutely certain about the details and the truth of their traditional December 25 stories but there is little agreement as to how the festival began.
Writing as Tool or Impediment Towards Memory
Does writing actually aid and benefit memory and recalling details or has it made people rather lazy and dependent on their notes, written signs, and computer processors?
History, Meaning, Celebrations of Christmas
The holidays are known as at time for warmth and friendship, but between Santa Claus, the birth of Christ, presents, cookies and conifers what does Christmas mean?
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