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AOK – History History = Enquiry It is an attempt to recreate the past through evidence. We try to find change and continuity. There are areas where we have a certain amount of agreement or disagreement about the past. There are other areas where we don’t know what happened, there may be massive gaps in the knowledge. - “Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write about it.” – Oscar Wilde - “History teaches everything including the future” – Alphonse Lamartine What facts can we rely on? Is something misinformation? Has thesis to explain an event  Commences research looking for evidence  Analyses and evaluate quality of evidence  Ensures evidence corroborates (The more pieces of evidence pointing to the same thing, is essential to proving a theory right)  Writes up thesis tries to be cogent (be convincing)  Defend thesis and it is peer reviewed  Likely to be challenged and or falsified...