A-Level History Study Group 2024-25

I'll just take an example that I can actually explain
So for example the Wagner Act of 1935 which legitimised labourers to join/create trade unions.
I'd then go on to say that this meant that labourers had a sort of reliance on the federal government from this point forwards.
Using terms like "turning point" or "flashpoint" can also be used as analytical criteria.
So impact is like the consequences for certain groups of people, in the case of your question the consequences for the federal government.
Was this impact positive or negative?
Hope that helped

Hi, I am a year 13 student who is currently predicted an A for history. I do the OCR exam board and study the units of Later Tudors, Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany and Civil Rights.

Oooh finally another OCR victim!
We must be doing the same civil rights (in the USA) unit! How are you finding 30 mark interpretations essays?

OCR for me too 😅 I am doing 5 A-Levels at the moment though so I don't know whether I'll drop history or not.

5 a-levels? what other ones are you doing?

Maths and FM, Economics and Chemistry. Realistically should drop down to 4 as 5 is unsustainable.

Doing 5 is mental! I'm getting stressed out with 3 and 1 AS, can't imagine the content for 5 of them. But dropping one seems sensible if you're not sure if you can handle it

Would you say for a source essay introduction, comparing the authors and saying how useful the Author's sources are together and then doing the same for Time,Type and Audience is OK?

What's the question (don't bother explaining the sources but the context of the question could help me answer)

How far could the historian make use of Sources 1 and 2 together to investigate the seriousness of the threat posed by the March on Rome in October 1922?
Explain your answer, using both sources, the information given about them and your own knowledge of the historical context.

Seems like the Sources agree then?
I'd approach it like this:
State whether (and how) the sources (dis)agree
Briefly explain the main message of both sources (and go on to explain the relation between the sources - ie. does one back up another, or similar...)
Write a judgement/thesis that states and explains your opinion in relation to the two sources and the seriousness of the threat... and so on.
In essence, your introduction should help you frame a series of arguments that will run like a thread through your essay. But how you do it is up to you.

My Introduction
"The author of Source 1 is Mussolini, who supports himself, while the author of Source 2 is
George Seldes, a staunch opposer of Mussolini. However when these 2 sources are used in
conjunction with each other they should present an unbiased version of events. Source 1
was produced by Mussolini’s newspaper during the March on Rome while Seldes’
second-hand account of events was published in 1935. These sources used together would
give 2 contrasting views from different perspectives on the March on Rome. The source type
of Source 1 is a newspaper article while the source type of Source 2 is a work of
historiography and these 2 types of sources being used together would work well, however,
the newspaper might be biased. The audience of Source 1 is the Italian Public while the
audience of Source 2 is English-speaking historians. These 2 sources give 2 different
perspectives of the Seriousness of the March on Rome for different audiences making them
useful to use together."
What do you think?

OCR for me too 😅 I am doing 5 A-Levels at the moment though so I don't know whether I'll drop history or not.

I've got a predicted grade of B in History!!!