Academic fields attempt to document historic experiences of ordinary individuals
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Academic disciplines such as social history frequently employ qualitative methods and public engagement to capture and document the lived, everyday experiences of ordinary individuals throughout history.
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Between life course research and social history: new approaches to qualitative data in the British birth cohort studies
2023 · cited by 10
Paper 1 discusses how historical research combines quantitative cohort data with qualitative questionnaires to understand how macro-level social changes were experienced by individuals at the everyday level.
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Sources and Resources‘The NHS … Should not be Condemned to the History Books’: Public Engagement as a Method in Social Histories of Medicine
2020 · cited by 6
Paper 2 demonstrates how public engagement methods allow social historians to generate qualitative testimonies that capture everyday personal experiences within the history of the National Health Service.