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The best way to evaluate sources is to go back to the basics: Who, What, When, Where and Why?

Who wrote it and are they likely to be biased?

What have they written and does ...

That depends an awful lot on the question itself. Source questions can seem really scary, especially if you haven’t seen the source before, but there are a few little tricks which make it a lot more ma...

It is vital that you look at who wrote both primary and secondary sources.

You probably know from GCSE that primary sources may be heavily influenced by all manner of characteristics belo...

These labels are often used to describe certain types of theories adopted by historians, but what do they actually mean?

Voluntarist: These approaches stress the importan...

The war that took place between 1945 and 1991 has been termed the 'Cold War', largely due to the fact that the two main agitators (The Soviet Union and The United States of America) never came into dir...