Conduct Family History Research: Dive into your own family’s past using online resources like Ancestry.com (often available free through libraries), census records, and digitized historical documents. This activity directly involves primary source analysis, understanding social history, and piecing together narratives from fragmented evidence.
Critically Analyse Historical Documentaries/Films: Don’t just watch – actively engage. Choose a historical documentary or film and research the historical context it portrays. Compare what is presented on screen with academic historical accounts. Look for biases, omissions, and creative liberties taken, and try to understand why certain choices were made.
Start a Historical Blog or Digital Timeline: Choose a historical period, event, or person that interests you and start writing a blog about them, or create a digital timeline using free online tools. This forces you to research, synthesise information, organise it chronologically, and present your findings clearly and engagingly, just like an historian would.
