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Tag: History

  • Where Did Christmas Come From?

    In this post, I am going to begin the anticipated series about the history of Christmas tradition. I’ll start with today’s post about the origins of Christmas, and then follow it up (hopefully fingers crossed) with a couple of posts about the history of two popular Christmas traditions. So, where did Christmas come from? How…

  • How to Analyse Historical Sources

    In this post, I’m going to build on the last two and go into a bit more depth and talk about how to analyse a historical source. If you’ve not read the last two posts in this series, be sure to check them out! When digging into historical primary and secondary sources, it is important…

  • 5 Key Elements of Good Historical Practice

    In this short post, I would like to pick up where I left off in my last post on Primary and Secondary Sources, and talk about 5 key elements of good historical practice. Before we do that though, we need to talk about the difference between the past and history. Those terms are used interchangeably…

  • Primary and Secondary Sources: What’s the Difference?

    In this short post, I would like to address a foundational question in historical practice: what is the difference between primary and secondary sources? If you haven’t heard those terms before, I am going to boil them down for you. First of all, let’s talk about how do we know anything about the past? How…

  • Why History Matters

        In this essay I would like to examine and explore the question, why does history matter to us today? History seems to have little relevance in the modern world of industrialisation, technology, science, and onward progress. In a society which values the new as always better, and the old as old fashioned and…