How useful are photographs in finding out about life in the trenches on the
Western Front 1914-1918?
It is important to note that evidence is essential for historians.
However,
evidence can vary in its usefulness.
Sometimes evidence can be very useful...
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How useful are photographs in finding out about life in the trenches on the
Western Front 1914-1918?
It is important to note that evidence is essential for historians.
However,
evidence can vary in its usefulness.
Sometimes evidence can be very useful but
sometimes evidence can be extremely misleading for historians.
You need to think
about the value of evidence very carefully, rather like a lawyer in a court case.
Look carefully at the five photographs your teacher as selected for you.
The usefulness of phototgraphs as
evidence depends on AARCC.
Author: Who took it? Audience: Who it was
made for?
Context: When it was
made?
Relationship to other
known evidence: Does
it agree with what we
know from other
sources?
Content: What it tells
us?
This British photograph was issued as a postcard.
It’s caption read “The
Glorious First of July 1916”.
This was the first day of the Battle of the
Somme when the British sustained 58,000 casualties, including 21,000 dead.
This was the greates
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