History — Year 13

Over the course of A level history, students will study three separate units and complete a 3000-4000 word essay for their NEA Historical Investigation.

Paper 1 - Russia, 1917-1991: from Lenin to Yeltsin: Students will learn about the key political, social and economic features of communist rule in Russia during the twentieth century, an era that saw its authority and influence rise to the status of a superpower, only to diminish and decline later in the century.

Paper 2 - The German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990: Students will study in depth the creation, development, decline and collapse of the communist East German state, 1949–90. For the whole of its existence, East Germany was a key focus of world attention as it lay on the frontline of the Cold War, where contrasts between East and West could be seen at their starkest.

Paper 3 - Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII, 1399-1509: Students will explore the dramatic developments in late medieval England that centred around the personalities and political acumen of a series of kings, queens and their powerful subject. This unit delves deep into one of the most turbulent periods of English history, the Wars of the Roses, before ending with the unification of the Houses of Lancaster and York and the founding of the Tudor dynasty under King Henry VII.

NEA Historical Investigation - Students will examine multiple interpretations of the causes of World War I. The focus is on understanding the nature and purpose of the work of each historian and students will be required to form a critical view based on relevant reading on the question. Students will be specifically required to analyse, explain and evaluate the interpretations of three historians and produce an independently researched 3,000-4,000-word essay.

Over the course of A level history, students will study three separate units and complete a 3000-4000 word essay for their NEA Historical Investigation.

Paper 1 - Russia, 1917-1991: from Lenin to Yeltsin: Students will learn about the key political, social and economic features of communist rule in Russia during the twentieth century, an era that saw its authority and influence rise to the status of a superpower, only to diminish and decline later in the century.

Paper 2 - The German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990: Students will study in depth the creation, development, decline and collapse of the communist East German state, 1949–90. For the whole of its existence, East Germany was a key focus of world attention as it lay on the frontline of the Cold War, where contrasts between East and West could be seen at their starkest.

Paper 3 - Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII, 1399-1509: Students will explore the dramatic developments in late medieval England that centred around the personalities and political acumen of a series of kings, queens and their powerful subject. This unit delves deep into one of the most turbulent periods of English history, the Wars of the Roses, before ending with the unification of the Houses of Lancaster and York and the founding of the Tudor dynasty under King Henry VII.

NEA Historical Investigation - Students will examine multiple interpretations of the causes of World War I. The focus is on understanding the nature and purpose of the work of each historian and students will be required to form a critical view based on relevant reading on the question. Students will be specifically required to analyse, explain and evaluate the interpretations of three historians and produce an independently researched 3,000-4,000-word essay.

Over the course of A level history, students will study three separate units and complete a 3000-4000 word essay for their NEA Historical Investigation.

Paper 1 - Russia, 1917-1991: from Lenin to Yeltsin: Students will learn about the key political, social and economic features of communist rule in Russia during the twentieth century, an era that saw its authority and influence rise to the status of a superpower, only to diminish and decline later in the century.

Paper 2 - The German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990: Students will study in depth the creation, development, decline and collapse of the communist East German state, 1949–90. For the whole of its existence, East Germany was a key focus of world attention as it lay on the frontline of the Cold War, where contrasts between East and West could be seen at their starkest.

Paper 3 - Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII, 1399-1509: Students will explore the dramatic developments in late medieval England that centred around the personalities and political acumen of a series of kings, queens and their powerful subject. This unit delves deep into one of the most turbulent periods of English history, the Wars of the Roses, before ending with the unification of the Houses of Lancaster and York and the founding of the Tudor dynasty under King Henry VII.

NEA Historical Investigation - Students will examine multiple interpretations of the causes of World War I. The focus is on understanding the nature and purpose of the work of each historian and students will be required to form a critical view based on relevant reading on the question. Students will be specifically required to analyse, explain and evaluate the interpretations of three historians and produce an independently researched 3,000-4,000-word essay.

Over the course of A level history, students will study three separate units and complete a 3000-4000 word essay for their NEA Historical Investigation.

Paper 1 - Russia, 1917-1991: from Lenin to Yeltsin: Students will learn about the key political, social and economic features of communist rule in Russia during the twentieth century, an era that saw its authority and influence rise to the status of a superpower, only to diminish and decline later in the century.

Paper 2 - The German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990: Students will study in depth the creation, development, decline and collapse of the communist East German state, 1949–90. For the whole of its existence, East Germany was a key focus of world attention as it lay on the frontline of the Cold War, where contrasts between East and West could be seen at their starkest.

Paper 3 - Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII, 1399-1509: Students will explore the dramatic developments in late medieval England that centred around the personalities and political acumen of a series of kings, queens and their powerful subject. This unit delves deep into one of the most turbulent periods of English history, the Wars of the Roses, before ending with the unification of the Houses of Lancaster and York and the founding of the Tudor dynasty under King Henry VII.

NEA Historical Investigation - Students will examine multiple interpretations of the causes of World War I. The focus is on understanding the nature and purpose of the work of each historian and students will be required to form a critical view based on relevant reading on the question. Students will be specifically required to analyse, explain and evaluate the interpretations of three historians and produce an independently researched 3,000-4,000-word essay.

Over the course of A level history, students will study three separate units and complete a 3000-4000 word essay for their NEA Historical Investigation.

Paper 1 - Russia, 1917-1991: from Lenin to Yeltsin: Students will learn about the key political, social and economic features of communist rule in Russia during the twentieth century, an era that saw its authority and influence rise to the status of a superpower, only to diminish and decline later in the century.

Paper 2 - The German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990: Students will study in depth the creation, development, decline and collapse of the communist East German state, 1949–90. For the whole of its existence, East Germany was a key focus of world attention as it lay on the frontline of the Cold War, where contrasts between East and West could be seen at their starkest.

Paper 3 - Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII, 1399-1509: Students will explore the dramatic developments in late medieval England that centred around the personalities and political acumen of a series of kings, queens and their powerful subject. This unit delves deep into one of the most turbulent periods of English history, the Wars of the Roses, before ending with the unification of the Houses of Lancaster and York and the founding of the Tudor dynasty under King Henry VII.

NEA Historical Investigation - Students will examine multiple interpretations of the causes of World War I. The focus is on understanding the nature and purpose of the work of each historian and students will be required to form a critical view based on relevant reading on the question. Students will be specifically required to analyse, explain and evaluate the interpretations of three historians and produce an independently researched 3,000-4,000-word essay.