History GCSE
Evidence-based location
What Evidence-based location means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Evidence-based location
Check what you remember
Read the wording for your board, then hide it and explain Evidence-based location in your own words. Rough notes are fine. This is a self-check, with no mark or grade.
Reference: OCR
Testing each location offered against what you know about the site rather than choosing the option that merely sounds familiar, and rejecting a plausible but incorrect location.
Topics that use Evidence-based location
- Urban Environments: Patterns of Migration (J410/11) - Key events in local migration history (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Arrival and settlement events
- Contested remembrance
- Local migration history
- Place and locality
- Public history and memorials
- Site versus commemoration
- Community institutions and their founding
- Industrial and economic change
Using Evidence-based location in the exam
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