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What Is History

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It is the story of people, places and events

History is the story


of the past
How can Historians
find out about the past?
Historians are like detectives who gather
information or evidence to put together the
story of the past.

They gather evidence from different sources


e.g. archaeological digs, manuscripts or
search the internet
Task
Draw at least three objects that represents
something from the past that is important
to you.

Explain what exactly this object represents


about your past.
Activity
In pairs choose an artefact

Study it together and complete the questions


1) Identify or describe the object you have
chosen?

2) How old do you think it is?

3) What do you think it was used for?

4) What does this object tell you about life in


the past?

5) Do you think the object comes directly from


the past or is a replica of the time?
Objects from the past
are called
Artefacts
How do historians judge the
reliability of sources?
Historians judge whether the source
is:
a) Bias
b) Accurate
c) Prejudice
d) Exaggerated
e) Propaganda
f) Fact or opinion

Explain the meaning of each of these.


a) Bias – This means that the writer may
have a strong , personal opinion about an
event and tries to show that their
opinion is right.

b) Accurate – this means correct or exact.

c) Prejudice – is where writers have made


up their minds in advance and present
only their own point of view
d) Exaggerates –this is when a writer
makes something seem greater than it
really is.

e) Propaganda – is where writers are


trying to win the reader over to their
point of view using posters, radio, tv and
speeches
How do Historians put events in order?
When historians find out information about
the past, it is important to get events in the
right order.
They usually use dates.
This makes it easier for people to follow the
story of what happened.
This is called chronological order.
There are a number of ways
historians measure time to
describe past events.
Explain the following:
1) A.D.

2) B.C.
⚫ A.D. stands for Anno Domini, which
is Latin, which is Latin for “year of our
Lord,” and it means the number of years
since the birth of Jesus Christ, which
is Latin for “year of our Lord,” and it
means the number of years since the
birth of Jesus Christ. That was a little
more than 2000 years ago, so the
date 500 A.D. means 500 years after 2000
years ago, or a little more than 1500
years ago.
⚫ As you can see on our BC AD timeline,
the years before Jesus was born are BC –
Before Christ. BC years go backwards
from 1.
3) Decade
4)Century
5) Periods or Ages
6)Millennium
Task:

Create a timeline of your life


using images and dates
Activity.
Put these dates into the correct
chronological order
a) 315 AD
b) 44 AD
c) 1871 AD
d) 1779 AD
e) 3 AD
Work out the centuries for the
following dates

a) 1066 AD f) 899 AD
b) 1215 AD g) 902 AD
c) 210 AD h) 55 AD
d) 1485 AD
e) 1745 AD
HISTORY
⚫ Accounts of phenomena, especially human
affairs in chronological order.
HISTORIANS
⚫ individuals who write about
history
⚫ Seek to understand the
present by examining what
went before.
THEORIES – constructed by
Historians
⚫ Factual history ⚫ Speculative history
⚫ Goes beyond facts because it
⚫ Presents readers the plain and is concerned about the
basic information vis-à-vis the reasons for which the other
events that took place: hand, goes beyond facts
because it is concerned about
the reasons for which events
⚫ WHAT-time and date happened.
⚫ WHEN-place ⚫ WHY- reasoned for which
events happened
⚫ WHO-people involved ⚫ HOW- the way they
happened
HISTORIOGRAPHY
⚫ The practice of historical writing.

⚫ Traditional method in doing historical research


that focus on gathering of documents from
different libraries and archives to form a pool of
evidence needed in making a descriptive or
analytical narrative.
LIMITATIONS OF HISTORICAL
KNOWLEDGE
⚫ Incompleteness of records

⚫ Human affairs without leaving any evidence


or records

⚫ No artifacts
⚫ The incomplete evidence – try to restore the
total past of mankind. Which it can be
meaningfully reconstructed from the available
records and from inferences.

⚫ VERISIMILITUDE is the aim of historians.

⚫ Truth , authenticity, plausibility.


⚫ HISTORICAL ⚫ HISTORIOGRAPHY
METHOD

⚫ Examining and ⚫ It is derived from the


analyzing the records process of I
and survivals of the ⚫ imaginative
past reconstruction of the
past from the data .
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
⚫ HISTORIANS
⚫ 1. Select the subject to investigate
⚫ 2. collect probable sources of information
⚫ 3. examine the sources genuineness, in part
of in whole
⚫ 4. Extract credible particulars from the
sources
Is your object a Primary of Secondary source?

Sources which come directly from the past,


giving first-hand information are known as
Primary Sources.

Secondary sources are evidence that comes


from a later date. They are written after the
event.
Sources

Primary Secondary
Primary Sources

Give examples of primary sources under


each heading
Written Visual Oral Artefact
Written Visual Oral Artefacts
Diaries Paintings Interviews Tools
Letters Photos Speeches Bones
Census Jewellery
Government
Reports
Autobiography
Newspapers
manuscript
Secondary Sources
Secondary sources are evidence that comes
from a later date. They are written after the
event.

A textbook is a secondary source as it was


written long after most of the events that it
describes
Can you think of other
examples of secondary sources
Biography
Movies
TV or radio documentary
Internet
History books
( Many secondary sources are put together
using many different primary sources)
Which of the following are Primary or
Secondary sources?

a) The Irish Times


b) The Mona Lisa
c) History text book
Where do we find
sources?

Libraries Archives Museums


Historians will use as many sources as
possible and then compare what they have
found. Why?

This is to make sure that the story of the


past is as accurate as possible.

This is called cross-checking


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