Seminar Studies in History is a long-running

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for undergraduate and younger students that aims to bridge the gap between the monograph and the full size university textbook. The series was established by history teacher Patrick Richardson and was one of the first series of academic history books to include documentary sources as standard.

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Seminar Studies in History was established and edited by history teacher Patrick Richardson of

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, Wimbledon.Lockyer, Roger, "Introduction to the series" in Roger Lockyer of

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replaced Patrick Richardson as general editor following Richardson's death in 1979. The current editors are

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and Gordon Martel. The series is targeted at undergraduate and younger students and aims to bridge the gap between articles or monographs and full size university textbooks. It was one of the first series of academic history books to include documentary sources as standard, when that was not fashionable amongst British educators. Volumes are typically of 100–150 pages, made up of an introductory essay followed by relevant documents and a detailed bibliography. The series was first published by

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but has since been produced under a variety of imprints including Routledge, Taylor & Francis and Pearson Education.

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Many of the early volumes were written by history teachers at private schools, reflecting Richardson's own background."The Early Modern Period: Recent Longman's Seminar Studies in History"
by Simon Adams, ''

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'', November 1984, Vol. 34, Issue 11, p. 58. ''The Levellers'' (1968), for instance, was written by Howard Shaw of Harrow School,''Betrayal in Burgundy''.
Troubador. Retrieved 10 June 2015. while ''The Russian Revolution'', which has not been out of print since it was first published in 1979, was produced by Anthony Wood, head of history at Winchester School until his retirement.Cover notes, A. Wood, ''The Russian Revolution'', 2nd edition, Longman, London, 1986. ''The Weimar Republic'' (1974) was the work of John Hiden, formerly of

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. Later volumes, however, have increasingly been written by university historians. Despite their relative brevity, some volumes have been highly influential in their field, such as

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's volume on the ''Tudor Rebellions'' (1968) which has been through six editions, with the most recent published in 2015. ''

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'' said of Hiden's ''The Weimar Republic'' that "arguably it has never been bettered".Obituary of John Hiden.
''Central and Eastern European Review'', Vol. 6, 2012
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