History is the study of past events,
particularly in human affairs
History is really important because it helps us
understand why we live the way we are living and
why we are where we are as a species and country.
What is time?
We divide time into different stages
Every ten years
Decade
One hundred years
Century
One thousand years
Millennium
Before Christ
B.C
After Christ
A.D
Periods
Separate divisions of time
Chronological is when you arrange events in order of
time, with what happened longest ago first, and the
most recent last
How to work out the century when you are given a year
If its a four digit number you take the last
to numbers and you add one
If you only have one digit you just
subtract it by one
What are sources
Sources are the clues that tell us about the past
E.g: How people used to live or what they thought
Sources can be anything from the past
All sorts of things can be sources
Documents
(written sources)
Pictures
Buildings
Artefacts
An artefact is a source, it is usually
an object or a building an object or a
building, an artefact is never a
written source, an oral source or a
picture source
Skeletons
What is Bias?
Bias is putting across an unfair or one sided opinion
Being biased could sometimes be useful to historians because it
helps them lean more about people's opinions and beliefs .
Spotting bias is a skill that all historians need to develop
Primary and secondary sources
Primary source
A primary source comes directly from the time in History we are studying
Secondary source
A secondary source is about the time we are studying, but
it's written or created some time after the event