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NSWHistory ExtensionThe History Project
Quick questions on Choosing a History Project and focus question for HSC History Extension
2short Q&A pairs drawn directly from our worked dot-point answer. For full context and worked exam questions, read the parent dot-point page.
What is testing the question for viability?Show answer
Before committing, test the question against several practical criteria. First, is there enough accessible historiography, secondary works by actual historians, that you can read and analyse within the time available? A question on an obscure local event may fail simply because the historians do not exist. Second, is the debate genuinely about interpretation, or merely about facts not yet established?
What is bank your anchor historian early?Show answer
A named starting-point historian (a Bean for Gallipoli, a Fischer for German war guilt) gives every later stage, bibliography, log, essay, a fixed point to define change against, and instantly signals to a marker that the project is about historians, not events.
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