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What's your advice for approaching source questions in a GCSE history paper?

This really depends on the question; for example if it is asking you if Source C supports the evidence given in Source A you must make sure you focus throughout on comparing and contrasting the evidence give...
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Answered by Elizabeth M. • History tutor
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'The New Deal ended the Great Depression in America." Discuss.

The New Deal was a series of government programs initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt between 1933 and 1941. Designed to combat the economic downturn known as "The Great Depression," hi...
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Answered by Sam C. • History tutor
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What is the best way to analyse a primary source given to us in the exam?

When analysing primary sources, it is important to consider 3 main things (i) who is writing the source? (ii) what can you infer from the source? (iii) How does this match up to the knowledge you have on the...
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Answered by Ava S. • History tutor
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How should I analyse a primary source?

Primary source questions in exam papers are asking you to give your own interpretation on history itself, rather than just reciting knowledge from a textbook. Contextual knowledge is always very important, b...
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Answered by Kathryn D. • History tutor
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'Fears of the Catholic threat to Elizabeth were fuelled more by events on the continent than at home'. How far do you agree?

‘Vox Populi, vox dei’. So declared the title page of one of a number of anti-Marian tracts published by Edward Norton in 1570, painting the Catholic threat as an assault on the common good. Anti-Catholic sen...
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Answered by Kazi E. • History tutor
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