This is a guide to researching the history of nursing covering the research method and the major readings in the discipline of history which will help anyone interested in the history of nursing to develop that interest in the ways most appropriate to them. The first section is concerned with the practice of history, discussing libraries, cataloguing, footnoting and the preparation of a bibliography. The second section forms an annotated bibliography listing resources for the study of the history of nursing. The final section covers useful addresses of libraries, archives and places for help and advice as well as data.