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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...

Historians can never truly know what the past was like. This is why historians have different interpretations of the past and how it occurred. Having said this, historians can still form a detailed and co...