History

Course summary

There will be a choice of eight routes that centres can pick from covering a range of topics and time periods: Route A: Conquest, control and resistance in the medieval world Route B: Religion and the state in early modern Europe Route C: Revolutions in early modern and modern Europe Route D: Challenges to the authority of the state in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Route E: Communist states in the twentieth century Route F: Searching for rights and freedoms in the twentieth century Route G: Nationalism, dictatorship and democracy in twentieth-century Europe Route H: Democracies in change: Britain and the USA in the twentieth century Within these routes, students study two different units which are both assessed by examination.