History

Invasion and Conquest

• Pre-history including the diversity of early Britain
• Celts, Romans, Saxons and Vikings overview
• How place names can tell us about the past
• The wider world in the year 1000

Contested Power and Land in the Middle Ages

• The succession crisis of 1066
• The Battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings
• The impact of the Vikings on the world
• The Normanisation of England
• Constantinople and Baghdad
• Power and gender in the Middle Ages

Religion in the Medieval World

• The structure of the Medieval Church and monastic life
• Thomas Beckett
• The Crusades
• The Islamic World
• Religious persecution in Britain

Early Empires and their fall

• English expansion within the British Isles
• Mongol expansion, including the destruction of Baghdad
• The Angevin Empire

Late Medieval Britain

• The Black Death and its impact
• The Peasants’ Revolt
• Gender in Late Medieval Britain including the Paston Letters
• The 100 Years War
• The War of the Roses
• The Later Medieval Economy

A time of change – the Early Modern Period

• New discoveries and inventions
• The reformation and dissolution of the monasteries
• The Pilgrimage of Grace
• Diversity in Tudor Britain
• Gender and Sexuality in Tudor Britain
• Conflict with Spain, including the Spanish Armada and early empires

Changing Ideas

• An introduction to the ‘idea of ideas’
• The Reformation and its impact
• The Renaissance and its impact
• The Enlightenment and its impact

Empires in Africa

• The development of the British Empire
• European colonisation of Africa
• Individuals and Empire e.g. Cecil Rhodes
• Resistance to Empire in Africa
• Interpretations of Empire
• The impact of the British Empire on Lancashire

Slavery

• Pre-modern slavery e.g. the Romans
• The trans-Atlantic slave trade
• The Middle Passage
• Life on plantations
• The Abolition of Slavery
• Slavery and Lancashire

Power and  Revolution in the Modern World

• The British Civil Wars
• The French Revolution
• The Industrial Revolution
• The extension of the franchise and the road to democracy
• Local history case studies
• The development of rights in 20^th Century Britain

Empire in India

• Pre-European Empires in India
• Background: The East India Company and British Empire in India
• Gandhi and Indian independence
• Indian partition
• Modern India and links to Britain/Lancashire

Why was the Russian Revolution a turning point in world history?

• Political ideologies and concepts
• The causes of the Russian Revolution
• The murders of Rasputin and the Romanovs
• The Russian Civil War
• Stalin and control in Russia

How and why did the Nazis rise to power in Germany?

• Germany at the end of World War One, including the Treaty of Versailles
• Life in Weimar Germany, including hyperinflation, experiences of women and LGBT+ people, cultural changes
• The rise of the Nazis in Germany
• Life in Nazi Germany

The Holocaust and Genocide

• Historical anti-Semitism
• Escalation of persecution in the 1930s
• The ‘Final Solution’
• Jewish Resistance
• Other groups targetted
• Genocide after the Holocaust

British Politics in the Twentieth Century

• The political system in the United Kingdom
• The extension of the franchise
• The development of political parties
• The Welfare State

The Cold War

• The origins of the Cold War and political ideologies
• Nuclear weapons
• The Space Race
• Conflict in the Cold War in Asia
• The fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of Communism

AQA Power and the People c. 1170 to present day

• Medieval challenges to the King’s authority: Magna Carta, de Montfort and the Peasants’ Revolt 1381.
• Early modern challenges to monarchical power: Pilgrimage of Grace, the English Civil War and the American Revolution.
• The campaign for suffrage: Chartism and female suffrage campaigners.
• Eighteenth century social reform: Corn Law, slavery abolition and social reformers, such as Titus Salt.
• Trade Unions and strike action e.g. Match Girls’ Strike, General Strike and post WW2 trade unionism.
• Race relations and modern rights: Windrush to race relations legislation, Brixton Riots and Stephen Lawrence.

AQA Conflict and Tension 1894 -1918

• Causes of WW1: alliances, imperialism, pre war crises, militarism and the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
• War of the Western Front: Verdun, Somme, Passchendaele.
• War at Sea: Jutland and the naval blockade.
• War on the Eastern Front: Gallipoli
• Ending of the war: arrival of the USA and exit of Russia, Ludendorff Offensive, Allied Offensive, signing of the Armistice.

AQA USA 1920-1973 – Opportunity and Inequality

• 1920s: economic boom, social and cultural changes, inequality, racism and prejudice, Wall Street Crash.
• 1930s: 1932 election, Roosevelt and the New Deal.
• 1940s and 1950s: Impact of WW2 on the economy, on Black Americans and on women, consumer society, McCarthyism.
• Black Civil Rights: Brown vs. Topeka, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Little Rock, Martin Luther King, sits in, freedom rides, voting rights, Malcolm X and the Black Power Movement.
• 1960s: Kennedy and Johnson, women’s’ rights and Roe vs. Wade.

AQA Elizabethan England c. 1568-1603

• Elizabeth’s Court and Parliament: government, ministers, relations with Parliament, loss of power towards end of reign, Essex Rebellion.
• Everyday life: living standards, fashion, rise of the gentry, theatre, poverty, sailors and exploration.
• Troubles and home and abroad: religious differences and re-establishment of the Church of England, Northern Rebellion, excommunication and role of Catholic missionaries, Catholic plots and Mary Queen of Scots, Puritanism, conflict with Spain.
• Students will also study a specific historic environment site which changes each year. This will be examined in a 16 mark essay question.