Resumen de Living in the Scottish Record Office
There is something in the experience of research that defines the historian. It is humbling, refining, and tempering, although not, at least in the experience, as obvious as a conversion. From William Rutherfurd's companion, the merchant Walter Stirling, we learn a little more of the story—and that Stirling wanted little to do with the bloody business. For the sake of simplicity whatever it may become, begins from the materials of history, and that it is in confronting these materials that questions of belief, intention, falsification, and truth have to be confronted and resolved. Theory comes later, after one has decided what one is, in fact, at the most empirical and scientific level, theorizing about, and how one's own biases dance at the edge of every apparently objective pool of light.
