History

Course summary

History A Level aims to introduce more 'stretch and challenge' into the study of history, allowing you to develop expertise in historical skills and acquire knowledge and understanding through the ability to study a wide range of topics in British and European history, across both the Early Modern and Modern periods. You will be expected to demonstrate the ability to explain, assess and analyse key events and the relationships between different time periods, to recall, select and deploy appropriate knowledge and communicate clearly and effectively, to make judgments and form arguments of interpretations of the past and form their own investigations of the past. In some units they will focus on a short period of time in depth, in others, they will explore a particular theme over a much longer period of time, of at least 100 years of change. Unit 1 - British Period Studies Early Modern British History. You will study the Early Stuarts, the origins of the Civil War and Cromwell’s protectorate and the restoration of the monarchy. Unit 2 - Non-British Period Study Dictatorship and Democracy in Germany 1919-63. You will study the Weimar Republic, the creation of a Nazi dictatorship and Germany after World War Two. Unit 3 - Thematic Study and Historical Interpretations Civil Rights in the USA, looking at the struggle of the Native Americans, black Americans, women and labour unions to establish their rights. Unit 4 Topic Based Essay You will complete a 3,000 to 4,000 word essay on a topic of your choice within Russia 1900- 1924.