1. Artefact-based approaches: collection, identification, conservation -- 2. Artefact-based approaches: display and interpretation -- 3. Approaches based on social and economic history, material culture and cultural studies -- 4. Approaches using literary sources -- 5. Approaches using visual analysis: paintings, drawings and cartoons -- 6. Approaches using visual analysis of photography and film -- 7. Ethnographical approaches -- 8. Approaches using oral history
