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Working with photographs as sources
There are quite a lot of things you need to watch out for when using photographs as sources. Just like documents they must be treated with caution.
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All of our resources follow an enquiry-based approach and use records from our collections at The National Archives.
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There are quite a lot of things you need to watch out for when using photographs as sources. Just like documents they must be treated with caution.
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This resource uses video, oral histories and original documents to explore the impact of the partition of British India.
Use this lesson to explore original documents relating to the sinking of the Titanic and interpret who lost their lives and who survived.
This resource, which includes a video explainer, explores a selection of political pamphlets printed after Charles I’s defeat in the First English Civil War.
This selection of documents explores the campaign for votes for women from 1840–1912, including its tactics and marketing, personal stories and responses to it.
This selection of documents explores the campaign for votes for women from 1912–1918, including its tactics and marketing, personal stories and responses to it.
This resource for key stage 4 students looks at the significance of The Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement and looks at how historians use sources.
This resource uses original documents to explore the causes, events and consequences of the Boston Tea Party of 1773.
Find out about the motives and attitudes of the British government after German troops re-occupied the Rhineland in 1936.
Use this lesson to work with original documents which tell the story of the Great Plague of 1665-1666.
Use this lesson to see if you can unravel the secrets of original documents about The Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
This resource contains records from the years 1938 to 1943 about the systematic persecution and murder of Jewish people by Nazi Germany.
This resource contains records from the years 1944 to 1946 about the systematic persecution and murder of Jewish people by Nazi Germany, and its perpetrators.
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