Historical Evidence
Historical Evidence Before historian can interpret the past, they must first establish the fact about the event they are studying. Historians look for evidence by researching many document and records,called historical source. PRIMARY SOURCE: are account written by people involved in the event,and include government and legal papers, will, map,business agreements, letter,and diaries. Historians read a wide range of texts,not just actual account of past events, but also work such as power book,which show the interest and beliefs of people in the past.Historian also look for evidence from government census records and birth,death,and marriage registers.possibly the most famous census ever carried out was the Domesday Book, compile in 1086 by order of William the conqueror ,king of England. This was the first thorough servey of part of the British Isles, detailing who owned the lan...