How To Study History

how to study history

1. Be interested. It is one of the most important things. You don`t have to love history completely but at least try to find something amazing about it. Watch a documentary film on youtube. Reread three musketeers by Dumas. Read the history of feminism on wikipedia. Watch Les miserables.

2. Connect history to reality. You don`t understand why you have to learn about romans or greeks who lived thousands of years ago? But they invented the society we live in! Democracy, roads, canalisation, philosophy, etc. Understanding it will make history a reality not fantasy. 

3. First of all understand the main idea. For example: you have to learn history of World War I. Don`t go in details! Just understand three the most important things: who was fighting? why? how does it all ended? If you study big periods like `history of USA` try to understand the main points: who lived in continent before colonisation; who and how find a new continent; then happened Independency war; then happend civil war; then was a big economy development; then world war I; then great depression… etc. And only when you understand tthe main idea of an event or can put events in the right order, only then go into details. 

4. Learn dates! You have to understand that without knowing dates you`ll never be good in history. Knowing dates will lead to understanding the right order of events which is very important for understanding history. How you can learn dates? Make flashcards. It is the most efficient way. An event on the one side. A date on another.

5. Get to know history persons! Learn the order of monarchs, connect the reforms with reformers; learn about the most important artists or writers of the time. Learn about Leanardo da Vinci while learning about the Renaissance; learn about Remark while learning the interwar time. 

6. Watch short youtube films on your topic. 10-20 minutes will give you the most important information. And it will also help you to understand the main concept, idea, and you will understand how this topic is connected to the whole history. And it will also help you when you will be reading your textbook - it is easier to learn already  acquainted facts. 

7. Use plenty of sources! Read a textbook, read wikipedia, watch documentary, listen to a podcast. Some will give you new information. You will understand which things are the most important (they will be repeated all over again) and learn them.

8. Try to teach someone. I literally understood some points only when i had to teach history as a tutor! So retelling facts and their connection to someone will help you a lot! It doesn`t work only for history but for other subjects as well.

9. Don`t limit your learning only to reading and writing notes. You will understand only the main idea (probably) but you will definitely forget the rest. So test yourself on what you have read.

10. Ask questions to yourself or your teacher or even a textbook. It is the most important. My history teacher once told me: `do you know when a real history research starts? When you are suprised. You see something that surprises you - and you are starting to wonder why this is like it is?` So you have to be curious. And you shouldn`t believe everything your textbook says! Not only ask questions but also try to answer them. Why this happening? What will be after it? Who will gain profit? Who will loose? Why it is so important? Why we learn it? 

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The boys had been on tour for a matter of months now; I couldn’t actually remember the last time I physically saw Harry. However, what got me through the lonely nights and long hours we couldn’t speak to each other was the knowledge I had - knowing he was doing what he loved and enjoyed above all else. There was only a few weeks of tour to go before they would all be home and with the people who loved them.

Everyone seemed just that little bit extra excited at this tour break because Zayn was to be getting married in this interlude. Perrie had kindly asked me to be a part of the wedding party, meaning me (along with many others of her close friends) had been beavering away back home, rigorously planning away from the wedding that seemed to be speeding towards us faster than we could process.

It made me so happy to see her so looking forward to the marriage - it was evident how she felt about him; and I couldn’t help but think about what it would be like for my own wedding. This year would be mine and Harry’s fifth together, and it only encouraged the small flame of excitement within me. Of course we’d spoken about marriage and the future we could have together, but he was yet to pop the question. I knew that it was definitely something I could do myself, but there was something in me that really wanted it to be Harry that asked me to be his wife - for the rest of our lives. 

I didn’t mind though, I was beyond happy where we were in our relationship currently. I felt so lucky to be a part of his hectic life and I loved to hear all the tour stories each time we got to sneak in a phone call or text. 

He really was the love of my life.

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- the sound of rain knocking in your window

- recently shaved legs touching fresh blankets

- the trees tinted in warm colours

- that good sip of your hot coffee

- staying in cafés in rainy days

- hearing the leaves crunching below your feet

- the preparations for halloween

- the comfort of your bed sheets after a long day

- the air humming in your ear

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