History

Course summary

The History A Level requires students to study a combination of British, European and World History across a time span of at least two hundred years. The aim of the seventeenth century course is to understand the concept of kingship and government by studying a period when monarchs had almost complete control over parliament and the people. The European History course focuses on Russia. The study of late nineteenth and twentieth century Russia enables students to study the changes in the way. Russia was run and how these changes helped to drive international relations. The World History element will focus on the USA and the struggle of citizens in the US to gain equality before the law. Students will be able to study the factors which encouraged and discouraged change during this period.