Academia

I guess that would be me - I'm a PhD student, currently in first year, still stuck in unending coursework.  My research area is Victorian Britain - mainly social and technological stuff - trains to fashion to food to architecture.  I am going to attempt to write a dissertation on the rise of tourism in Britain during the nineteenth century (hopefully this is possible) and look forward to making several research trips to the Isles to aid me in my task.

Oh, please do!  I would appreciate it greatly.  I love looking at those old photographs and wondering what the world must have been like for those people.

I finished my undergrad last year in Commerce/Arts - majoring in Management and History, minoring in Spanish and Macroeconomics. I was offered two scholarships to continue at post-grad level, one for History and the other in Management. Tempting though the History one was, I opted for Management (it had to be either one or the other).

Still I do like to continue the study of history as a topic, and I love doing historical work which integrates economics into what made states function. JSTOR  is an excellent source of historical info, and so is gutenburg.org if you want access to primary sources. I particularly like to focus on Byzantine, Late Roman and some of the Ancient Near Eastern civs.

Originally posted by HaloChanter JSTOR is the undergrads bible. Helped me through some tough research at Uni. I hear it's expensive to subscribe once out of education (though for some reason I have access for another 2 years).   What Uni/Country? Economics is a nice subject to compliment history (or vice versa as it were). Sounds like a challenging combination :)

Monash University, Clayton Campus, Australia.

Economics is terrific to give extra perspective. It makes understanding political and military motives so much more informed. Economics is alright, it does kind of grow on you once you realise what economic theory can be used for - like in explaining historical events. But history was always the more enjoyable subject, simply because it deals with people.

Oh sorry, in creating this threat I forgot to add myself!

Edited by HaloChanter - 03-Nov-2007 at 21:24