Student Topics 2019

Clocks

Chocolate

Tea

Sugar

Cotton

Stock Market

Railways

Potato

Tobacco

Search Strategies

  • Wherever possible, use the Advanced Search.(not necessary in YULIS)
  • Use quotation marks when searching a phrase, e.g. "chocolate - history"
  •  Sample Search terms:

"Social aspects" and [topic keyword(s)]

OR

"Social history" and [topic keyword(s)]

  • See YUFind sample search for how to set up your search.

Analyzing the Topic

Questions to think about:

How can your product be used as a lens to think about change over time?

Aside from the history of the product, how has its development/introduction/invention generated or made visible broader societal changes?