1. Consider the research topics listed in Box 27.10. Which ones could be investigated (either wholly or in part) by means of archival research? Pick one of them (or do this exercise for a project on which you are working) and consider:

(a) What kinds of primary and secondary sources might you hope to find?

(b) What kinds of oral and documentary sources might you hope to find?

(c) How would you gain access to these sources and what problems might you need to overcome in doing so?

(a) Reconstruct the history of your house or home, focusing on its occupants or owners.

(b) Study the socio-economic composition of your street at one point in time more than 75 years ago.

(c) Study a major local event, occasion or institution from more than 75 years ago.