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The Elizabethan poor law of 1601 was fundamental in reducing poverty, notably in the localities, it served as a cohesive piece of legislature that unified a variety of poor relief efforts. However, this p...

Louis Pasteur showed that airborne microbes were the cause of disease, where previously people had blamed superstition. He built on the work of Edward Jenner, who discovered the smallpox vaccine, and help...

One of the reasons why the Weimar Republic was in a state of crisis was because of its poor reaction to the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr in 1922, namely paying their workers to go on strike l...

Exam questions will often ask you to assess the usefulness of a source(s) to a historian or to consider how convincing or relevant certain sources are. Whilst it is important to demonstrate your source an...

The most important thing is to form a plan and know what your thoughts are on the question before you start writing. This will help you avoid going off on tangents in the main body of the essay. It is als...