Key terms & definitions

A distinct stage in the development or use of a site.

The extent to which an account can be trusted to describe past events accurately.

The wider importance of an event, including how it influenced later developments.

A place studied to understand the past through its physical remains and other historical sources.

Material from which historians obtain evidence about the past, such as a photograph, newspaper, official record or memoir.

A play based on historical events that presents destructive conflict, suffering and the downfall of important characters.

A difference in how behaviour is defined or judged at different points in time.

A place where buildings, structures and their surroundings provide evidence about the past.

The surviving physical material of historic buildings and streets, which can remain even when their uses change.

The question of how far a narrative represents people, events or conditions that actually existed in the past.

Whether a reported person or event belongs to actual history; for a miracle story, whether the event really happened.

The writing of history, including how historians select, organise and interpret evidence.

A historical narrative explaining past events, often through selected stories, speeches and moral judgements rather than simply recording facts.

A quick attack followed by withdrawal before the enemy can organise an effective response.

The carefully promoted image of Hitler as an exceptional leader who embodied Germany’s strength and interests.

An organisation that trained boys in Nazi beliefs, obedience and skills intended to prepare them for military service.

Human immunodeficiency virus: a virus that damages the immune system and can lead to AIDS.

Human immunodeficiency virus: a virus that attacks the immune system and can lead to AIDS.

Human immunodeficiency virus; a virus that attacks the body's immune cells and may eventually lead to AIDS if it is not successfully controlled.

Human immunodeficiency virus: a virus that attacks the body's immune cells and can lead to AIDS unless successfully controlled.

A house of multiple occupation: accommodation occupied by separate households or tenants who share facilities such as a kitchen or bathroom.

A collection of valuable objects, such as coins or jewellery, deliberately hidden or buried together.

Money and valuable possessions accumulated and kept rather than spent or shared.

Accumulating and keeping possessions or money rather than using or sharing them.

A deliberate deception, such as a letter falsely claiming to have been written by a murderer.

An unemployed migrant who travelled in search of work during the Depression.

A network of supply routes through Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia used to move troops, weapons and supplies from North Vietnam to communist forces fighting in the south.

A coastal management policy that maintains defences to keep the shoreline in its existing position.

The Hindu festival of colours, celebrating spring, devotion and the victory of good over evil.

A holiday centre providing accommodation, meals and organised entertainment or activities on one site.