1. Significance in History
What is it and how can we measure it?

2. 5 Rs to Measure Significance
Remembered
Results
Remarkable
Resonant
Revealing

3. Remembered
Quite straightforward – Are people in the present aware of the event?
How is the event remembered?
What about people outside of our own country/culture?

4. Results What came as a result of the event?
Does it lead on to other significant events? If so, what was the contribution of this event?

5. Remarkable How has the event been recorded?
Were there different opinions of the event at the time? If so, why do these different opinions occur?
Has it been remembered differently at different points in time? If so why and by whom?

6. Resonant How has the event shaped history?
How has the event shaped the present?

7. Revealing What does the event reveal about opinions from the period?
Are there other consequences or contributory factors which reveal the past in a different light?