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Would be interesting to focus on one particular event by first looking at the publicly available information at the time, then looking at the primary documents
by Brakenshire 10y ago
Would be interesting to focus on one particular event by first looking at the publicly available information at the time, then looking at the primary documents released later to see what was going on internally, then reading a general history book to see how all the complexities and inconsistencies are tidied up.
- manachar 10y agoThat would be a fantastic way to learn history! Only thing I'd add is that the written historical record only tells part of the story and can often get amazing insights from other sources such as the material record (i.e. archaeology).