A Level in History

Course summary

History at Mulberry is built around your own independent enquiry. Lessons will engage you in a wide range of individual and group activities, student-led debates, seminars and presentations, and you will be able to use scholarly books and journals covering different historiographical viewpoints. All A Level History teachers are graduates with different specialisms and are enthusiastic academics. The department have strong links with History faculties at Queen Mary University, SOAS and other London universities. As a result of this partnership, we are able to invite lecturers to visit us to share their specific expertise and enhance your experience of studying at this higher level. We encourage you to develop your own skills in evaluating, thinking creatively, prioritising and forming your own interpretations. The emphasis is always on creating your own judgements supported by evidence rather than learning ‘the correct answer’, which makes it more rewarding than the strict confines of GCSE History. Studying History helps you learn how to think, not what to think.