Part 1 Bibliographies, textbooks and periodicals. Part 2 History theory: thinking about history; thinking about history in the museum; thinking about objects. Part 3 History making: African-American histories; city/urban histories; early histories; histories of children and childhood; histories of religon or belief; histories of social and/or personal experience; histories of war and peace; histories of work, industry and transport; maritime histories; national histories; personality museums; plural histories; rural histories; science and museums; women's histories in museums. Part 4 History and the public: history and memory; musuem visitors; exhibition technique; living history; education; outreach. Part 5 Forming the archive: thinking about people and places; useful secondary sources; research and recording methods; museum reserach and fieldwork; using primary sources; looking and the environment; photography and video - oral history; acquisition and disposal. Part 6 Managing the archive: collection policy; documentation of collections; classification of systems; conservation and restoration; storage and security. Part 7 Histories of history museums. Part 8 Management and planning.