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=Evaluation of Sources (250-400 words) Tips]=

One source I used was the BBC TV series, 'Charles II: The Power and the Passion,' which follows the story of the King during his twenty seven year reign. As it focuses primarily on Charles, the most prominent aspect of the series were his feuds with parliament and covers the major events of that era. It accurately shows his attitude towards parliamentary decisions such as the Test Acts and their attempts to remove the Duke of York, later James II, as heir to the throne. Following the restoration of the monarchy, the King and Parliament regularly clashed however one limitation with this TV series is that in the final episode when Parliament were attempting to pass the Exclusion Act, which would have meant that James, who was Catholic, would have be excluded from the line of succession. In the series Charles dissolves parliament and it seems that parliament ceases to exist after this, but in reality, he was forced to dissolve parliament three more times in order to eventually defeat this bill. It also does not greatly focus on the colonial policies of England at the time and suggests that Charles was very friendly towards Louis XIV and only took an aggressive stance towards the Netherlands. Although he did take an anti-Dutch position, he was also part of the Triple Alliance, which opposed Louis XIV during his war with Spain in 1668. But these discrepancies are understandable as it compresses almost thirty years into four, one hour episodes and overall it gives a very good overview of the period. One major strong point is the evolution of fashion during this time period starting when the Periwig was introduced at the start of Charles's Reign through to the different style of clothing and the different style of makeup worn my the women. With regard to origin, it was made and produced by the BBC which is a respectable broadcasting organization and is not produced by anyone who had a clear political agenda. Again, its purpose is more to entertain rather than persuade its audience and the opposing two sides, Charles and Parliament, explain their points of views and reasons behind their actions allowing the audience to make their own choice over who was right.

Another source I will analyze is the book 'A Pepys Anthology,' which is a version of the full diary edited by Robert and Linnet Latham. The strongest point of this source is that it compresses the entire diary into just under three hundred pages, which makes it a much more accessible text as it only has the extracts of the most value and interest to the reader. What sets this apart from other compressed versions of Pepy's Dairy is that instead of listing the extracts in chronological order, it categorizes each extract under different themes. But, even though this style allows the reader to read in "continuous narrative," often months and sometimes years elapse between each extract, meaning that it is not as continuous as it may have originally seemed. The anthology was created by Robert Latham, who was a member of the Magdalene College at Cambridge and wrote many books on Samuel Pepys. So obvious he is one of the leading experts on Pepys which would imply that the exerts chosen for each theme would be the most appropriate.