UNIT 3 BRITAIN Nature, origin and purpose · 81 UNIT 3 BRITAIN c1903-28 Nature, origin and purpose...
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81 UNIT 3 BRITAIN c1903 - 28 Nature, origin and purpose Working with sources involves a range of different skills. To write really good answers it helps to know about nature, origins and purpose. Look at the source on page 78. Write a sentence about the source for each of these headings: Content, Context, Origins, Purpose, Nature. Nature What type of source is it? (E.g. is it a diary entry, a letter, a photo, a cartoon…?) Working with sources Origins When was the source produced and who produced it? Purpose Why was the source produced? What is it for? Is it giving a particular message? Think about nature, origins and purpose when you are cross-referencing sources, making judgements about usefulness or purpose, or making evaluations about hypotheses. Content – Shows a woman being restrained in a prison cell while being force-fed through a tube in her nose. ‘Votes for women’ is written on the cell wall. Context – Women hunger strikers being force fed in prison and the ‘Votes for women’ message on the wall means this is about suffragettes. Make careful note of details in the source and use them to support the answer you give. Nature – This is a political poster. Election posters are not reliable representations of fact but they are very useful to historians as evidence of what political groups were trying to achieve. Origins – Designed in 1914 for the WSPU, so the source was created for the suffragettes. Purpose – To shock people about the government’s actions (note the use of the word ‘torture’) and convince them to support the suffragette cause. You can say a lot about reliability and usefulness from thinking through the purpose. Source A: A WPSU poster from 1914
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UNIT 3BRITAINc1903-28
Nature, origin and purpose
Working with sources involves a range of different skills. To write really good answers it helps to know about nature, origins and purpose.
Look at the source on page 78. Write a sentence about the source for each of these headings: Content, Context, Origins, Purpose, Nature.
NatureWhat type of source is it? (E.g. is it a diary entry, a letter, a photo, a cartoon…?)
Working with sources
OriginsWhen was the source produced and who produced it?
PurposeWhy was the source produced? What is it for? Is it giving a particular message?
Think about nature, origins and purpose when you are cross-referencing sources, making
judgements about usefulness or purpose, or making evaluations about hypotheses.
Content – Shows a woman being restrained in a prison cell while being force-fed through a tube in her nose. ‘Votes for women’ is written on the cell wall.
Context – Women hunger strikers being force fed in prison and the ‘Votes for women’ message on the wall means this is about suffragettes. Make careful note of details in the source and use them to support the answer you give.
Nature – This is a political poster. Election posters are not reliable representations of fact but they are very useful to historians as evidence of what political groups were trying to achieve.
Origins – Designed in 1914 for the WSPU, so the source was created for the suffragettes.
Purpose – To shock people about the government’s actions (note the use of the word ‘torture’) and convince them to support the suffragette cause. You can say a lot about reliability and usefulness from thinking through the purpose. Source A: A WPSU poster from 1914
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