History GCSE
Site versus commemoration
What Site versus commemoration means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Site versus commemoration
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Read the wording for your board, then hide it and explain Site versus commemoration in your own words. Rough notes are fine. This is a self-check, with no mark or grade.
Reference: OCR
Keeping the original site of an event separate from a later commemorative or memorial location, so a memorial or plaque is not treated as the place where the event happened.
Topics that use Site versus commemoration
- 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
- Place and locality
- Public history and memorials
- Community institutions and their founding
- Industrial and economic change
Using Site versus commemoration in the exam
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