I weaved it onto the main part of the essay, our layout for our paragraphs was: point, evidence, explain, and then include some context in the explain section. It didn’t have to be much, but just to show that you’d read around the text and knew why that particular event/point had been impactful during the time it was published. I don’t know how your exam board works, but we just had to make reference to context, so it was literally a couple of lines in one paragraph, just to tick it off the mark scheme.
And then I usually added the ‘this evokes to the reader that’ part at the end of the paragraph, almost as a concluding statement to the paragraph. Or if I wanted to give my opinion on a point throughout, I’d say something like ‘however, the reader could interpret this in a different way’ to present a different side of the argument.