Archival Research

This essay will critically analyse archives and documents as a tool for researching sports history and the legacy of the legendary race horse Red Rum.
Archives and documents are secondary sources of information and Hall and Hall (1996) identify that secondary sources of information should not be overlooked because of the usefulness of them. Secondary research is using data that has been collected by others (Scarrott, 1999) which "is borrowed" and used "to add something to your data" (Langley, 1987, p. 43).
Archival and documentary research includes sources such as historical documents, d…