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What was the main reason for the failure of Charles I's personal rule?

How to answer this type of question: To assess why Charles I's personal rule failed, you must set a criteria and a few factors which you will expand on throughout the essay. Considering the harsh time lim...

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The Treaty of Versailles was the main reason behind World War II. Discuss

For essay questions it is important to carefully read the question. Some elements are the key to answering the question. Here discuss and the main reason are essential. "Discuss" implies providi...

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Assess whether the Thatcher Governments 1979-1990 transformed Britain.

Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher noted ‘No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man’. Similarly, every Prime Minister will transform Britain bu...

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How have historians disagreed about appeasement as the basis of British foreign policy from 1937 to 1939?

Appeasement has spawned a wide debate among historians over time. The differing views of historians and their scholarship over a period of time is called historiography. Firstly, thinkers such as Cato and...

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To what extent was Martin Luther King the most effectively civil rights leader for the advancement of African American Civil RIghts in the period 1865-1992

Question invites thematic approach as means of assessing 'effectiveness' e.g. political, economic and social To what extent question encourages evaluation and comparison
Arguably Martin Luther ...

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