HISTORY

Exam Board: Edexcel

The course comprises 4 examined units spread across 3 papers:

Paper 1: British Thematic study with Historic Environment (30% of total)

Medicine in Britain, c1275 to present with a special study on the British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: surgery and treatment. This is a thematic unit which looks at the development of medicine in Britain from the early middle ages to the present day. It’s a tale of surgery, public health and the fight against disease and involves war, religion, some big personalities.

Paper 2 examines two units: British Depth Study and Period Study (40% of total)

Period Study (20%): The American West, c1835–c1895

Not just Cowboys and Indians and how the West was won, but why the West was won and who did the winning, from the earliest pioneers and wagon trains to the railway builders and the lawmen. This element of the course explains, to a large extent, how America became the place it is today.

British Depth Study (20%): Early Elizabethan England, c1558-88

Exploration, discovery and settlement in the new world; War with Spain and the Spanish Armada; Protestants, Catholics and the battle for the religious soul of England. This unit will explore all of these themes and more as it takes you on a journey through ‘Merry England’.

Paper 3: Modern Depth Study: (30% of total)

Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39

This unit shows how defeat in the First World War led to economic and political chaos in Germany which allowed the rise of extremist groups such the Nazi party. It explains how Hitler was able to rise to power and how Nazi Germany developed up until the outbreak of World War Two in 1939.