History

Assessment

There are two examined units and one non examined coursework unit. Paper One is a broad study of America from the abolition of slavery to the end of the Vietnam War. Paper Two is a modern British History depth study which begins with Attlee’s government post World War Two and ends with the very changed Britain governed by Blair and Brown. Political, economic and social changes, alongside international affairs are explored in both modules. Coursework is a 4,5000 essay which considers change and continuity in Victorian Britain and Ireland.