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    1. The document outlines criteria for determining the historical significance of people, events, and developments from the past. 2. Key criteria include novelty, importance, profundity, quantity of lives affected, durability of effects, relevance to present understanding, and resonance with modern experiences. 3. Significant things are often groundbreaking, remembered over time, resulted in tangible changes, and had far-reaching or long-lasting impacts on people, communities, and future developments.

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    1. The document outlines criteria for determining the historical significance of people, events, and developments from the past. 2. Key criteria include novelty, importance, profundity, quantity of lives affected, durability of effects, relevance to present understanding, and resonance with modern experiences. 3. Significant things are often groundbreaking, remembered over time, resulted in tangible changes, and had far-reaching or long-lasting impacts on people, communities, and future developments.

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    Summary of Significance Criteria November 2021

    Handout 1. Summary of Historical Significance Criteria

    History Skills’ NAME Partington Counsell Phillip’s GREAT


    • Novelty: new, original, or • Importance to people • Remarkable: it was • Groundbreaking: a
    not done before, which living at the time remarked upon by person, event that is
    people in the past • Profundity: how deeply people at the time and/or innovative or pioneering,
    measured people’s lives were since new and stunning
    • Applicability: relevant to affected by it • Remembered: it was • Remembered by all: a
    what is happening today • Quantity: how many lives important at some stage person or event that
    • Memory: PEIs were affected in history within the people remembered in
    remembered in a good or • Durability: for how long collective memory of a the past and still
    bad way people’s lives were group or groups remember today in books
    • Effects: affected a lot of affected • Resulted in change: it and commemorations
    people, must be long • Relevance: extent to had consequences for • Events were far
    lasting which the event has the future reaching: affected people
    contributed to an • Resonant: people like to and communities widely
    increased understanding make analogies with it; it • Affected the future:
    of present life is possible to connect effects shaped or
    with experiences, beliefs influenced later events or
    or situations across time developments
    and space • Terrifying: large-scale
    • Revealing: shows some threat, destruction, or
    other aspect of the past damage

    Sources:
    Counsell, Christine. 2004. “Looking through a Josephine-Butler Shaped Window: Focusing Pupils’ Thinking on
    Historical Significance,” Teaching History 114 (March): 33.
    “History Skills.” 2014-2021. <https://www.historyskills.com/historical-knowledge/significance/>.
    Partington, Geoffrey. 1980. The Idea of an Historical Education. Slough: National Foundation For Educational
    Research, 112-116.
    Phillips, Robert. 2002. “Historical Significance—the Forgotten ‘Key Element’?” Teaching History 106 (March): 16.

    Prepared by Maria Serena I. Diokno for CPD Training on Historical Significance

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