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The tabularium's identification is based on two inscriptions from the site itself. Virgil in the Georgics mentions a public record office in this area of the forum.

They key for part one of the exam is the extended quote (last year's HSC quote was quite long). You need to pull this quote apart as it will set up many of your discussion points in the essay. Look particularly for any assumptions the author has made about history's purpose and ideas like...

If I was doing Augustus I would do the following: I would choose three aspects of his reign (e.g. his character as one example). I would find three ancient historians that give different views of this aspect e.g. Tacitus, Suetoniues and possibly Dio Cassius. Then I would argue why they...

Kapsersky AV. Best money I have spent.

Benny Morris' The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem has plenty of information on this.

Re: What makes a 10/10 History essay? Some good advice above. Use the historians as well. You need to be aware of and demonstrate knowledge of the perspectives of some different historians on the topic at hand. Believe me, it makes all the difference in HSC marking. You will not get above...

Hmm, I would think thank doing the Gracchi is right out considering its place in the Ancient History syllabus.

One of my students is doing it.

Agreed. Ancient topics are made for extension - there is really only the interpretations of historians to deal with (which is the heart of the syllabus). As one poster said above, remember this is not a straight history course. You have to be able to say "how" historians have interpreted the...

20 at the moment.

You need more differentiation in the schools e.g. an ancient historian like Herodotus is not writing the same history as someone like Thucydides or Polybius or Procopius etc. The differences are very significant. You need to be at least looking partly at why they wrote what they did. This goes...

This is what my school uses as texts: Marnie Hughes-Warrington, ed., Fifty Key Thinkers on History John Warren, History and the Historians Anna Green and Kathleen Troup, The Houses of History