History

Introduction to History

Romans and initial assessment,

Norman Conquest – The Battle of Hastings and William’s consolidation of power

Medieval Britain – The role of the Church in power and society, Death of Thomas Becket, Medieval life, Black Death and Disease and The Peasants’ Revolt

Tudor and Stuart England – Religious turmoil, Artwork as propaganda, Elizabethan society, Spanish Armada and 1642 Civil War

Empire and Slavery – Development of the British Empire, life of slaves, abolition of slavery and the legacy of the British Empire

Industrial Revolution – How people lived in the 19^th Century and an investigation into Victorian England through a focus on Jack the Ripper

World War One – causes, trench warfare, Battle of the Somme and The Peace Settlement

The Holocaust – Anti-Semitism through the ages, Jewish life in 1930s Europe, Treatment of German Jews in Nazi Germany, the Final Solution, Resistance to the Holocaust and Commemorating the Holocaust

Assessment overview

Section A: historic environment

Section B – thematic study

Medicine in Britain, c1250-present

Assessment overview

Early Elizabethan England, 1558-1588

The American west , c1835-95