1.3 Getting the whole story from "the egyptian red book": general  (Page 5/7)

Titles can also be illuminating in our sorting through material. Consider "Gordon: martyr and misfit" by Anthony Nutting.

Lastly, we find an entry that offers a very different kind of perspective on our story.

Except for Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's Gordon at Khartoum, all of the above books are secondary source materials. Once you have identified potentially relevant books, locate them in the stacks and scan their tables ofcontents and indices to determine how useful they will be. You will likely find other relevant books close by. The methods we are describing here are only a few ofthe techniques that you will need in selecting works to include in your bibliography, but they should assist you in working more efficiently. As we hopethat the remainder of this module will demonstrate, the story is never complete and always told from a particular perspective of the authors of the sources we choose.At the very least, the above practice can be used in any number of research situations to familiarize yourself with the events in question so that you maybetter understand the variety of perspectives of them.

Looking for the story in the london times

Newspaper provide a key source of primary source materials, since they offer a day-to-day account of history from the journalistic perspective of those whoexperienced it. The London Times has been the daily newspaper of record in England since the 1780s. Here we will be performing a basic search of the Times archives sothat we might gain the perspective of the average British citizen while the events themselves were unfolding. In order to use the Times archive, your institution musthave a subscription to it and you must either be on campus or connected to your network via VPN or proxy server. (See Accessing Networked Resources" for more information.) For instance, from the home page for Fondren Library select the Online News option under the Collections heading, then select the Europe option and scroll downto the entry you see below. You will see that a large number of newspapers are listed from all over the world.