Analysing sources

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Planning for this workshop
What are sources?
Source analysis in four steps

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Objectives for this workshop
At the end of this workshop you...

...you will be able to apply a step-by-step source analysis.

...you will be able to judge whether a source is reliable.

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What are sources?

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Definition of historical sources
= Something that tells us about history

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Historical sources (give examples)

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Kinds of historical sources
Writen sources


Unwriten sources
This lesson

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Written or unwritten?
A
Written
B
Unwritten

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Written or unwritten?
A
Written
B
Unwritten

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The use of sources
There's no history without sources -> no understanding of the past. 

Sources give an idea of how life was in the past. If sources are corrupted they can give us a incomplete or false image of the past. 

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If you were going to do research on fighting in Medieval times, what source could you use?
A
Medieval clothing
B
A cannon from the 16th century
C
A dairy of a soldier from 1400
D
A dairy of a bisshop from 1300

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If you were going to do research on Roman architecture, what source is the best for that research?
A
A movie about Roman conquest
B
A letter from a emperor to his architect
C
The ruine of a Roman building
D
A painting of a Roman city from Roman times

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Planning for this workshop
What are sources?
Source analysis in four steps

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Source analysis in four steps

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1. Who made this source?
You can ask yourself the questions:
  1. What was this persons background and belief?
  2. Was the person witness of the event?

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2. What kind of source is it?
You can ask yourself the questions:
  1. Is it a written or unwritten source?
  2. Was it published or not?

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3. When was this source made?
You can ask yourself the questions:
  1. In what year was the source made?
  2. When did the events in the source happen?
  3. How much time is between the events and the source?

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4. Where was this source made?
You can ask yourself the questions:
  1. Where did the events take place?
  2. Where was the source made?
  3. How much distance is between the events and the source?

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Four steps of source analysis
  1. Who made this source?
  2. What kind of source is it?
  3. When was this source made?
  4. Where was this source made?

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