ABSTRACT
Almost every undergraduate history course in the UK requiresyou to write a dissertation, a thesis or a major project inyour final year. This will almost certainly be your most substantial single piece of written work and may seem a daunting prospect. It shouldn’t, because the rather forbidding History Benchmark Statement’s requirement that history students should, towards the end of their course, ‘formulate, execute and complete an independent extended piece of written work’ is your opportunity to be a ‘real’ historian.
