whitechapel

• source

  • national newspaper:
  • positive- detailed info, insight into public interest, informative about opinions and attitudes
  • negative-may have factual innacuracy,could have high level of opinion,political bias,censorship
• source-

  • police records
  • strenghts: consistent format,detailed evidence
  • weak: may only represent a certain element of society, or disproportionately represent activities of some groups
• source-

  • surveys: provide numerical evidence of society, can work out standard in cost of living, birth and death rates
  • weakness- limited by size of survey, can be manipulated
• source- photographs

  • accurate detailed information about people places events, frozen historical events
  • weak- provide fraction of evidence, the camera can lie
• source- individual reports

  • eg charles booth
  • can be highly detailed
  • could be subjective based upon interests of qriter