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Explore digitised BnF and partner collections to place historical claims in context.
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Gallica · BnF
Explore digitised BnF and partner collections to place historical claims in context.
Limit to retain in your conclusion
A digitised document preserves a source, not the truth of every claim in it; check edition and provenance.
Useful search anchors
- Exact query
- Exact name
- Reference period
Fields to record when citing a result
- ARK / archival reference
- Producer / publisher
- Publication date
- Licence / reuse rights
Evidence record to retain
Persistent identifier, title, author or publisher, edition date, cited page or view, holding institution and reuse terms.
Check before drawing a conclusion
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Official reference page
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Reconstruct a documentary timeline
Locate an archival reference, consult a digitised edition and date versions of a web page.
An inventory, historical publication and web capture are different witnesses; gaps do not prove an event never occurred.
Compare sourcesUseful methods
- Assess a public dataset before reuse
- Compare public indicators without false equivalence
- Evidence and source register