HISTORICAL CONTENT RESOURCES: PRIMARY,

SECONDARY AND TERTIARY SOURCES IN HISTORY

Primary
- These are created at the time of an event with witness and analysis like letters and
diaries
- Photo correspondence
- Autobiographical writing
- Autobiographies > personal
- Memoirs, posters, photographs
- Painting, drawings and literature
- Telegrams, speeches, oral histories
Secondary
- These are sources that was created after the event with such opinions and expressions
particularly historical text books
- Movie review
- Articles, journals, publications
- Literature review
- Book review (criticism/internal and external) with coherent analysis\
- Researches/
Tertiary
- Sources that are available now in different platforms like social media, encyclopedia,
atlas, almanacs
- Documentation or collection like libraries and internet sources