Ordinary scholarly generosity differs from commercial media work that depends on expert labor. Students may spend hours briefing television researchers and sending written material without arranging payment or a firm role in the programme. An agent can establish that research, consulting, and speaking have value before the historian commits substantial time. Although this author has no literary agent for books, he relies on experienced advice when contracts or legal wording need scrutiny.
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Protecting the value of historical expertise in media work
Advice about agents and television researchers warns historians not to give hours of specialist research away on the vague promise of future exposure.