{"id":1150,"date":"2010-07-07T15:42:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T12:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2010-06-02T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T12:50:11","slug":"historiography-historians-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/historiography-historians-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Historiography: The Historians and their Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first way in which we gain knowledge of the past is through historical evidence (&#8220;sources&#8221;). Two questions raise themselves:<br \/>\nHow can we extract knowledge from the sources? (issues of quality and quantity)<br \/>\nHow useful is the knowledge that we extract in this way? (issues of comprehensibility and the &#8216;language gap&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/historiography\/tok\/1_sources\/1_Evidence.pdf\">Student worksheet<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/historiography\/tok\/1_sources\/2_Evidence_Extension.pdf\">Extension Task<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/historiography\/tok\/1_sources\/z_teacher\/1_Evidence.pdf\">Teacher notes<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first way in which we gain knowledge of the past is through historical evidence (&#8220;sources&#8221;). Two questions raise themselves: How can we extract knowledge from the sources? (issues of quality and quantity) How useful is the knowledge that we extract in this way? (issues of comprehensibility and the &#8216;language gap&#8217;) [Student worksheet | Extension&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/historiography-historians-sources\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-iy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}