A Level History

Course summary

History challenges students to analyse the cause and consequences of significant historical events and developments over time. It also assesses a student’s ability to evaluate primary source material and claims made by historians. You will have the opportunity to engage deeply with historical developments and debates and to carry out your own investigations. Course Content: The following units are studied: Unit 1 Breadth Study: Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 Year 12: Tsarism in crisis and the Russian Revolutions. 1855 – 1917 Year 13: The establishment of the Communist dictatorship under Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev. 1917 – 1964 Unit 2 Depth Study: The Wars of the Roses, 1450 – 1499 Year 12: The fall of the House of Lancaster. 1450 – 1471 Year 13: The fall of the House of York. 1471 – 1499 Unit 3 Independent Investigation c.100-year investigation of Imperial, Weimar and Nazi Germany. c.1848 – c.1945, focussing on one of the following topics: • Developments in the status of women • Anti-Semitism • The development of nationalism OR c.100-year investigation on inequality experienced by African Americans and the advancement of civil rights in the period c.1865-c.1965 OR another topic of choice (subject to approval)