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In this clip people give tips for finding out about historical topics. Research skills such as visiting museums, handling objects, studying maps and venturing out to historic sites, such as castles are described. The importance of examining evidence with a critical eye is also explained.

Students could be given information from a range of different sources including some of those described in the clip. Students could explore these sources and decide which are reliable sources of information, which include facts and which include opinions. They could also categorise these as primary and secondary sources of information.

Conducting their own research, students could make the same judgements about reliability. Students could include the information that they have decided is reliable in a report or information booklet about the Jacobites.