History

Medieval Britain:

Richard the Lionheart

John – Magna Carta (power & the people)

Henry II – politics & religion (the state versus the church).

Black Death.

Peasants Revolt.

Hundred Years War & Agincourt 

Early modern Britain:

Tudors – Henry VIII, the Reformation & John Fisher, Elizabeth & the Spanish Armada.

Stuarts – English Civil War & Cromwell

Empire:

Exploration & the Slave Trade, China & the Opium Wars, Irish famine, Indian Mutiny, Africa & the Aglo-Zulu War.

Britain, c.1700-1900:

Industrialisation, Arkwright, Peterloo, legislation (Mines Acts), Suffragettes. 

Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, Stalingrad & El Alamein, Dresden, Hiroshima.

Anti-Semitism & the Holocaust

Fascism:

Spanish Civil War & the Battle of Cable Street

The Cold War:

Yalta & Potsdam, The Iron Curtain, Berlin Blockade & Airlift, Chinese Civil War & Revolution, Korea.

GCSE History consists of four parts and is assessed through two written exams.

Paper 1 Period study (25%) - Germany, 1890–1945:

• Democracy and dictatorship. Focus on Germany during a turbulent half-century of change that saw the development and collapse of democracy and the rise and fall of Nazism.

Paper 1 Wider world depth study (25%) - Conflict in Asia 1950-75:

• Focus on the causes and events of the Cold War in Asia - how and why conflict occurred in Korea and Vietnam and why it proved difficult to resolve the tensions.

Paper 2 British thematic study (25%) - Britain – Medicine through time:

• Study on how medicine has developed from the Medieval to the Modern Era. Through this unit, you will study the different epidemics, revolutionary advancements, and how wider developments such as War, has caused Medicine to develop.

Paper 2 British depth study (25%) - Norman England, c1066–c1100:

• Focusses on the arrival of the Normans and the establishment of their rule. The depth study will focus on major aspects of Norman rule, considered from economic, religious, political, social and cultural standpoints of this period.