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Read this article to learn about the objectivity and bias in history: Historical knowledge is not purely intuitive because it is derived from a critical examination of source material and is checked by further reference to the source. Historical objectivity is closely related to value-judgment. By objectivity, we mean dispassionate, disinterested and scientific treatment of all events which would be [...]

Read this article to learn about history and its auxiliary sciences! Several other disciplines are there in order to factualize the history and its events. A historian must use the results achieved by the workers in other fields of human knowledge. They are called ancillary disciplines or auxiliary sciences such as- Chronology, palaeography, graphology, sigillography, diplomatic, epigraphy, numismatics and archaeology [...]