What will a history cost?
The cost of employing a professional historian will depend on the scope of the history you decide to commission. Some organisations and individuals find it helpful to engage a professional historian to assist in designing the project and in selecting the person who will undertake it. The budget should include the historians professional fees, fees for any research assistance, a allowance for research outlays (for example, for photocopying, obtaining documents from research repositories and government departments, audio or video-cassette tapes and CDs, scanning, copying or purchasing photographs, maps and other visual materials) and the cost of any travel or associated expenses. The expenditure on the finished product may include printing and associated publication costs, the payment of reproduction fees, editing and/or proofreading, indexing, marketing fees for a publication, programming and reproduction costs for a CD-ROM, fees for website presentations, the copying and distribution c
