On 3/17/06, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
That's only true for unpublished primary sources, though. Plenty of primary sources (e.g. memoirs, diaries, etc.) are quite easily verifiable, if not always reliable.
They're reliable if they're being treated as a primary source (Eg, Lord Kent wrote on the 14th of March 1932 that the Germans would invade the next day). Treated as a secondary source (Germany invaded England on the 15th of March 1932 [1]), they are unreliable.
Steve
[1] Lord Kent's diary, 14th of March 1932