History

Course summary

All Level History courses have to cover at least 200 years, and include both British and non-British History so we cover: • The Early Stuarts and the Civil War 1603 – 1660 (Y108) The most explosive period in British History rebellion and revolution, the bloody Civil War and its republican aftermath, muskets at Edgehill, axes in Whitehall, the imitation of Christ on the rutted road into Bristol… • Democracy & Dictatorships in Germany 1919-1963 (Y221) The Nazi dictatorship – why did it happen? What impact did it make? What were the consequences? • Britain & Ireland 1791 – 1921 (Y316) The relationship between Britain and its “half-alien dependency”. Rebellion from Wolfe Tone to the Easter Rising, reform from the Act of Union to Home Rule, the era of O’Connell, Gladstone, and Parnell • Coursework on USSR 1917 to 1991 (Y100) The rise and fall of Soviet Communism – questions can vary from the rise of Lenin to the fall of Gorbachev, from the 5 Year Plans to glasnost and perestroika, from the role of women to the misery of the peasants.