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Primary sources

• Accounts of an event, written by someone who experienced or witnessed it
• Original documents, often diaries, letters, memoirs, journals, speeches, manuscripts, interviews and other unpublished works.
• Published pieces such as newspaper or magazine articles (as long as they are written soon after and not as historical accounts)
• Photographs, audio or video recordings, research reports in the natural or social sciences, or original literary or theatrical works

Secondary sources

• Interpret, assign value to, conjecture on and draw conclusions about the events reported in primary sources
• One step removed from the event, problem or issue under review
• Are usually are in the form of published works such as journal articles or books, but may include radio or television documentaries or conference proceedings.

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