History quotes

trying to find historiography on Disraeli and Gladstone for my exam, any ideas where i can find historians opinion on them?

Yeah, books. Read.

any ideas which ones?

Reply 3

ivybridge

Original post by benchbender

any ideas which ones?

Yeah, sorry I wasn't trying to be a prick its just an obvious answer.

What do you need the information for? Coursework? If so, which board are you on and what is your question?

Reply 4

benchbender

no, im just trying to find historiography/historians opinions on Disraeli and Gladstone, so i can quote them in my final exam
my exam board is aqa and they require quotes from historians to get above a level 1

Reply 5

benchbender

Robert blake on disraeli is all i can really find so far

Reply 6

ivybridge

I'm on AQA and tha's like not true at all... unless your AS? Then it could be.

Reply 7

Cherx

Original post by ivybridge

I'm on AQA and tha's like not true at all... unless your AS? Then it could be.

I do AS and my teacher hasn't mentioned anything about quoting in essays. However, would quotes count as a good source of evidence to back up points?

Reply 8

ivybridge

Original post by Cherx

I do AS and my teacher hasn't mentioned anything about quoting in essays. However, would quotes count as a good source of evidence to back up points?

They could do but I really doubt you'll need them... I want to do history at university and I do AQA (I'm doing A2 though so I'm on the old spec) but I did not use any quotations. I used facts and figures entirely...

Reply 9

Cherx

Original post by ivybridge

Ah okay I was thinking quotes might be easier to remember. How do you manage to remember all the facts and figures? There's so much! :motz:

Ooh nice choice.. I'm guessing the coursework hasn't drove you insane yet.

Reply 10

ivybridge

Original post by Cherx

Ah okay I was thinking quotes might be easier to remember. How do you manage to remember all the facts and figures? There's so much! :motz:

Ooh nice choice.. I'm guessing the coursework hasn't drove you insane yet.

No, I've done the coursework already aha. My first draft was like... a low A or something, I think. So hopefully it's an A* now.

I just do... tip: go through all of the past questions you can, print them off and staple them all together. Then, what you do is you go through and pick out all the common themes that arise. Then you take each theme and build up all the information you can that would help you answer questions on said themes - that tells you largely what is and isn't useful. Simply 'numbers', acts of parliament, events, people, opinions, whatever, can be used as evidence. Dates are not the be al and end all - know key ones and you're fine.

Reply 11

Cherx

Original post by ivybridge

Wow that's pretty impressive :awesome:

Ah okay at the moment I'm just trying to sort out my exam technique *sighs* so the thought of not knowing much facts/figures as well worries me.

Thanks for your tip :yy:

Reply 12

ivybridge

Original post by Cherx

Wow that's pretty impressive :awesome:

Ah okay at the moment I'm just trying to sort out my exam technique *sighs* so the thought of not knowing much facts/figures as well worries me.

Thanks for your tip :yy:

Yes but technique is useless if you don't know the content!

Reply 13

benchbender

the aqa marks scheme for 2014 says to even get level 3 you need historical interpretations:

Answers will show an understanding of the demands of the question. They will providesome assessment, backed by relevant and appropriately selected evidence, which may,however, lack depth. There will be some synoptic links made between the ideas,arguments and information included although these may not be highly developed. Therewill be some understanding of varying historical interpretations. Answers will be clearlyexpressed and show reasonable organisation in the presentation of material.

http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-HIS3G-W-MS-JUN12.PDF

Reply 14

ivybridge

Original post by benchbender

That does not mean you need quotations.

Reply 15

benchbender

so what does it mean?
do you need to say:
Blake says "Disraeli was good"
or just blake agrees with this view???

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Reply 16

ivybridge

Original post by benchbender

so what does it mean?
do you need to say:
Blake says "Disraeli was good"
or just blake agrees with this view???

Neither man. It's like in English where AO3 asks for other critical interpretations; it does NOT mean you look up critical reviews of Macbeth or whatever and use them. It means you give an alternative view, i.e.: "However, some readers may think..."