History GCSE
Place and locality
What Place and locality means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Place and locality
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Read the wording for your board, then hide it and explain Place and locality in your own words. Rough notes are fine. This is a self-check, with no mark or grade.
Reference: OCR
The specific site where an event happened, such as the street, district, dock, place of worship, workplace, street corner or public building, and the wider town or city it belongs to.
Topics that use Place and locality
- Urban Environments: Patterns of Migration (J410/11) - Key events in local migration history (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Arrival and settlement events
- Contested remembrance
- Evidence-based location
- Local migration history
- Public history and memorials
- Site versus commemoration
- Community institutions and their founding
- Industrial and economic change
Using Place and locality in the exam
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