WEBINAR | Introduction to Historical Research In the early days of my postgraduate student journey, I was involved in two projects - one of them my own research; the other, being a research assistant for one of my supervisors, Gordon. My own research required me to work in unusual conditions, especially for a novice researcher. I was undertaking business-embedded research in Singapore, and because I had to explore corporate history, found myself in the archives of not only the National University of Singapore Library, but also deep in the archives of the Singapore National Archives. The NUS library was fantastic. A meticulous collection of texts, transcripts, manuscripts and working papers, along with a Newspaper Room - collating and curating newspaper clippings, but subject, by person, by company, from over half a century of publications. Armed with a discounted photocopy card, I spent days in the room, carefully filtering through the plethora of bound collections, identifying article...
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