Knowledge is power: Using archival research to interpret state formation -- Secondary worlds: Reading novels as geographical research -- Home and identity: Life stories in text and in person -- Learning about labour: Combining qualitative and quantitative methods -- Photographs from the edge of empire -- Cinematic cities: Researching films as geographical texts -- Art and urban change: Public art in urban regeneration -- On display: The poetics, politics and interpretation of exhibitions -- Deep listening: Researching music and the cartographies of sound

1. Human geography