how to answer history questions. for e.g 'Describe law and order in london in the late nineteenth century.'

Question

please people help me answer my questions because i'm struggling so badly that i always have to lie when i need to answer my questions so please! please! please! please! please! please! please! help me.

Answer 1

"It was very easy to find yourself imprisoned in mid nineteenth century London. Until the 1850s boys of eight were regularly sent to prison and they were often 'old lags' by the time they were twelve. When the census was taken in 1851 there were over six thousand prisoners in London's gaols. More crime meant more prisons. "

this webpage answers your question

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~city19c/viccity/laworder.html

Answer 2

You will never give good answers to history questions by lying!

To answer a history question you first need to define its scope. The question you refer to looks pretty easy here: you have a defined place (London) and time (the nineteenth century). You probably need to give some thought to who is involved - different types of criminal, law and order enforcers (the police), the legal system (solicitors, barristers, judges in their courts) and lawmakers (parliament, local authorities etc.).

You then need to gather your information. This could be a textbook or the internet. Later it could include different secondary sources (books, journal articles) and primary sources, i.e. records, which in this case will include things like court records and contemporary newspaper reports. learning how to get the information is a major part of the historian's skill. Start from a basic textbook and then if necessary go back through the references. You need to evaluate the accuaracy of your information, e.g. by how consistent it is with other bits of information.

Last and definitely not least, you will have to sort out your information and write it into an answer. Obviously there is far more on a topic like law and order in C19 London than you can get into an answer, so you will have to pick out what is important. This means you must interpret what you have found out, and probably assess it in comparison with what other epole have said.

Actually, a very descriptive question such as the one you give is quite difficult to handle well. If you are not careful, it will turn into a list of boring facts, and you have no easy way to check you have got the most important ones. One way of avoiding these traps is to ask yourself questions about the topic, e.g. Were some people more likely to get punished than others? Was the legal profession representative of the people generally? How did the law reflect Victorian views of morality? Was law and order used to rpotect London's interests as the world's finanical centre in the nineteenth century? etc. (these questions are just off the top of my head, I don't recommend them particularly). Then set out these questions in an introductory paragraph (remember, for all essays, tell them briefly what you are going to say, than say it, then summarise what you have said) and address subsequent paragraphs to answering the questions in a sensible order.

Finally, nobody pretends that doing history is easy. You need to learn by practice and expereince, and nothing can substitute for learning from a good teacher - ask questions!

Answer 3

abysmal, between the justifications the victorians have been so prepared to introduce documents, births deaths, marriages,, census etc, replaced into because of the fact they realised that they had no thought who replaced into the place and what they have been as much as. it replaced into particularly undemanding for prisoners to newgate to have thoroughly distinctive names each and every time and likewise get discharged via the Justice of the Peace because of the fact they have been 'first time villains' while in fact they have been previous lags. a stable e book to p.c.. up is the 'italian boy' via sarah sensible, is a pair of homicide via resurectionists yet she is going over the circumstances of london and the state of the police on the time. it replaced right into a shambles somewhat and no one supported the 'new police' presented via peel, they have been considered a guffawing inventory and its a ask your self they survived. in spite of the undeniable fact that, crime interior the 19c replaced into very lots decreased from the 18c, which replaced into lots worse you in addition to would would desire to evaluate that there replaced right into a starting to be acknowledgement that the quantity of and severity of poverty replaced into contributing to lawlessness, in spite of the undeniable fact that maximum nonetheless believed that in case you have been unfavorable it replaced into your guy or woman fault and hence any criminal behaviour replaced right into a trademark of why you have been unfavorable inthe first place.

Answer 4

This is not the place to do this if you are as badly off as you sound. Talk to your teacher/lecturer. You can't expect other people to write masses of stuff for you when YOU need to do it.

Answer 5

Ask your teacher for advice on information gathering