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 - Mao's China, 1949 - 76. Students examine the transformation of China into a Communist world power and how Chairman Mao's exercised personal leadership and control. Students will examine a range of key developments such as the use of terror, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. 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 - Mao's China, 1949 - 76. Students examine the transformation of China into a Communist world power and how Chairman Mao's exercised personal leadership and control. Students will examine a range of key developments such as the use of terror, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. 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 - Mao's China, 1949 - 76. Students examine the transformation of China into a Communist world power and how Chairman Mao's exercised personal leadership and control. Students will examine a range of key developments such as the use of terror, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. 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 - Mao's China, 1949 - 76. Students examine the transformation of China into a Communist world power and how Chairman Mao's exercised personal leadership and control. Students will examine a range of key developments such as the use of terror, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. 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 - Mao's China, 1949 - 76. Students examine the transformation of China into a Communist world power and how Chairman Mao's exercised personal leadership and control. Students will examine a range of key developments such as the use of terror, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. 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.