A good exam - at least i thought so until i came home. I thought historiography was a good source, i'm sure Munslow must be a post-modernist, correct me if i'm wrong - i hope not - i wrote on John Vincent, Windschuttle, Carr and Hayden White. I thought the question was more specific than previous years "the role of the historian" but a good one, except for the fact i think i missed some vital stuff out on Carr, about how he though the role of the historian was to "give the floor to facts". Anyways i wrote 11 pages for the first question.
I thought the case study question was great, because it seems to have not wanted info on the historians' contexts - BUT PLEASE TELL ME I'M RIGHT - because that's what i'm stressing most over. I did Elizabeth 1 - ANYONE ELSE DO ELIZABETH?????? I focused on her image - mainly the cult of Elizabeth (Yates, Strong & Hackett) and her parliamentary policy (Neale and Elton) i thought that i answered the question well and thought the "challenging old accepted interpretations" fit well with Elizabeth. I wrote 15 pages for this section and ended with the quote from Pieter Geyl "history is an argument without end".
I have a question: IN QUESTION 1 - WHEN IT REFERS TO SOURCES - DID THAT MEAN YOU HAVE TO MENTION THE BOOK / ARTICLE THAT A HISTORIAN WROTE IN because all did was say the historian's name i.e. Keith Windschuttle, but i got alot of quotes not from his "The Killing of History" but from one of his "Sydney Line" lectures. PLEASE SOMEONE ANSWER & TELL ME HOW YOU DID THIS + ELIZABETH.
PS: I only wrote that many pages because my handwriting has become increasongly large in the HSC to write faster, but i had about 5-7 words per line - reasonable, but not amazing, so nobody say i'm boasting.
And no one should leave exams early, one guy in my class left 30 minutes early - idiot!!!!!!
Thanks. Over and out. 1 to go - Legal Studies....