History Tomorrow
Michael Lee questions the use of using political historical sources.
How many modern historians nowadays consider that they should regularly purchase HMSO publications, especially parliamentary papers?
I am aware of a change in my own habits of buying for my personal working library, and wonder how many others have made a similar adjustment. I no longer try to keep a selection of papers from government sources, or to put it more accurately, I no longer pay regular visits to the government bookshop and buy items from my taxable income. Yet I cannot help feeling a sense of regret. Is that stupid? Should not one accept the signs of the times?
I am aware of a change in my own habits of buying for my personal working library, and wonder how many others have made a similar adjustment. I no longer try to keep a selection of papers from government sources, or to put it more accurately, I no longer pay regular visits to the government bookshop and buy items from my taxable income. Yet I cannot help feeling a sense of regret. Is that stupid? Should not one accept the signs of the times?
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