To study and examine the development of society, over time, within Britain and the wider world. To analyse and understand the causes of key historical events and the significance of the changes and consequences that they can bring about. Students are encouraged to develop an awareness of social, political, economic and religious factors and how they interact to influence patterns of change and continuity. They will be encouraged to not just learn history, but to learn from it so as to better understand past events and people and their significance. Students will analyse and develop their knowledge and understanding of specific historical periods, in doing so they will develop a working knowledge of the skills related to handling historical evidence to help them develop their understanding of the past. They will also identify how historical interpretations can differ and evaluate why this is so.
Key questions/concepts
Understanding how time is broken down.
How can we use sources to tell us more about a subject?
Understanding the chronology of events
How can archaeology help to develop our understanding of various events?
Timeframe
Key vocabulary
Wider reading
How did William conquer Saxon England?
Who had a claim to the throne after Edward the Confessor died in 1066?
What did William introduce in order to keep control in England?
Understanding the development of castles in England
What did the Domesday Book enable William to calculate?
Life in the Middle Ages was hard. How far do you agree?
Who could you visit for medical treatment in the Middle Ages?
Where did the Black Death originate from?
How did the Black Death spread?
What were the consequences of the Black Death?
How much influence did the church have over people's lives?
How did the church maintain control over people who could not read or write?
What were the main causes of the Peasant Revolt
In what ways did the crown and the church disagree? How did this lead to the murder of Thomas Beckett
Why did people go on crusade?
Understand religious tolerance and backwards and forwards between religions
Why was producing an heir so important for the Tudor Dynasty?
Which two families were fighting in the War of the Roses?
Why did Edward VI take the throne before Mary I?
What were the main causes of the Spanish Armada?
How did the James Stuart become King of England?
What was the Gunpowder plot and why did it happen?
Why was Charles I executed and what were the consequences?
What was Britain like under the rule of Oliver Cromwell?
How and when was the Monarchy restored?
What was the Transatlantic slave trade?
What was the Middle Passage and which countries were involved?
How were slaves sold at auction?
In what ways did Slaves resist working on a plantation?
How and when was slavery abolished?
How did the British Empire develop?
Which countries were part of Britain's Empire?
What was life like for people in the empire?
How did the British take control of India?
How and why did the British Empire decline?
How did Britain change between 1759-1900?
What was life like in towns and the countryside?
What was the Industrial revolution?
Why did children work in factories and what were conditions like?
Why was public health so poor and what diseases were common?
How were women viewed during the 1900s?
Who was allowed to vote at the start of the 20th Century?
Which groups were campaigning for the right to vote?
What were the method used by Women's suffrage groups during their campaigns?
When were women awarded the right to vote?
What were the long term causes (MAIN) and short term causes of World War 1?
How were men persuaded to join up?
How were conscientious treated?
What was it like to fight in the trenches?
What did the peace treaty (Treaty of Versialles) look like in 1919?
Who were the 'Big Three' dictators in Europe during this period?
What is the difference between democracy and dictatorship?
What was Stalin's Russia like?
Did the League of Nations achieve its aims?
Was appeasement a sound policy?
What was the impact of the economic depression in the 1920s?
How did Hitler's early years impact on him?
How did Hitler rise to power?
How were persecution and propaganda used in Nazi Germany?
What was the Holocaust?
Why was Dunkirk a key turning point?
Why was the Battle of Britain a key turning point?
How did the Blitz impact on life on the home front?
Why was D-Day a key turning point?
How did the war in the Pacific result in Hiroshima?
What were the causes of the Cold-War?
What were key flashpoints?
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Why was there a war in Vietnam?
Why was the Berlin Wall built?
What was the role of a Medieval doctor?
How did medical discoveries in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome impact on the middle ages?
How did religion impact on the development of Medicine?
What surgery was carried out in medieval times?
What was Medieval public health like?
What was the Renaissance and how did people treat the sick?
How important were Pare's discoveries?
What was Harvey's contribution to medical progress?
What was the Germ Theory and how did it change medicine?
How did scientists discover that Germs caused diseased?
How was pain in surgery conquered?
Who was Joseph Lister and why was he important?
What was the impact of both World Wars on surgery?
How did the introduction of Penicillin impact surgery?
How was surgery performed into the 21st Century?
How dirty were Britain's towns in the early 1800s?
What was Cholera and what impact did it have?
Who was John Snow and what did he discover?
What was the Great Stink?
Why did the government try to improve the nation's health after 1900?
Who was Elizabeth I?
Who was powerful in Elizabethan England?
Why was it important that Elizabeth should marry?
What rebellions were their against Elizabeth?
Who were the significant figures at court?
What was fashion like?
What was the role of the theatre?
Was Elizabethan England really a golden age?
Why was there so much poverty in Elizabethan England?
How did the Elizabethans respond to poverty?
What was the reaction to Religious change in England?
How did the Catholics and the Puritans threaten Elizabeth?
Why was Mary Queen of Scots seen as such a threat?
Why was there conflict between England and Spain?
What was the Spanish Armada and what was the outcome?
What were the aims of the peacemakers?
What were the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
What was the reaction to the Treaty of Versailles?
How fair was the Treaty?
To what extent did the 'Big Three' achieve their aims?
Why was the League of Nations created?
How success was the League in the 1920s?
How did international agreements help the League of Nations?
Diplomacy outside of the League
Was the League destined to fail?
What did Hitler want?
How did Britain and France react to Hitler's actions?
Was appeasement a good idea?
The invasion of Poland and the declaration of war
Why did the Second World War break out?
What was Germany like before the First World War?
What was the Weimar republic?
Why did the Germans hate the Treaty of Versailles?
Hitler and the Munich Putsch
How did Germany recover after 1923?
How did the Depression affect Germany?
How did the Nazi party grow?
Who voted for the Nazis?
How did Hitler become Chancellor?
How did Hitler begin to eliminate opposition?
What economic changes were their under the Nazis?
How did the Nazis change the lifes of young people?
Who was on Hitler's 'hate list'?
What was the Final Solution?
How did the Nazi's control the lives of the German people?
The Conditions in Russia before 1917
Why did the February revolution happen?
What were the events of the February/March Revolution?
The Developments between revolutions
The causes and events of the October/November revolution
The consolidation of the Communist dictatorship
What were the causes and events of the Civil war?
What social and economic developments were there between 1917 & 1924?
What were relations like with other countries?
What were attitudes to foreign powers like?
Why was there a power vaccum and power struggle following Lenin's death?
Ideological debates and issues in the leadership struggle
What were the economic developments between 1924-1929?
What was government and propaganda like under Stalin?
Stalin and foreign relations between 1924 and 1929
The Consolidation of Henry's power and his government
England's relationship with Scotland and other foreign powers
English Society at the end of the 15th Century
Economic developments: trade exploration, prosperity and depression
Religion, humanism, arts and learning
What were the character, aims and government of Henry VIII like?
Foreign relations under Henry VIII
English Society in the reign of Henry VIII
Economic developments during Henry's reign
Religion, ideas and reform
Agricultural and social developments in the countryside
Industrial and Social developments in towns and cities
The development of the Statlin Cult
Strengths and weakness of the economy by 1941
Strengths and weakness of the society by 1941
How did Stalin rule as a dictator?
The Yezhovchina: mass terror
What was culture and society like in Stalin's USSR?
What were international relations like between 1929 and 1941?
How similar was Stalinism to Leninism?
What was the Great Patriotic war?
What impact did the Great Patriotic war have on the Soviet Union?
How were the Germans defeated?
What was High Stalinism?
How did the Soviet Union's international position change after 1945?
Edward VI, Somerset and Northumberland
Social impact, religious and economic change under Edward
Mary I and her ministers
Social impact, religious and economic change under Mary
Elizabeth's aims, economic, social and religious developments in her early years
Elizabeth's government 1563-1603
Foreign affairs
Social and economic developments in Elizabethan England
Religious developments and the Golden age of Elizabeth Culture
The Last years of Elizabeth
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