Why study history

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Why study history?

• A Level

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People who work hard do well in history!
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• students make exceptional progress in history
• OFSTED, 2007

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• Over the past 5 years Historys A Level results
  have consistently been in the top three subjects
  in the school.

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Employers like it!
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• You learn how to go through loads of research
  material, books and documents trying to put a
  story together
• Jonathan Legard
• Football Correspondent
• Studied History at University of Leeds

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• History taught me to re-examine in each case
  the original material that lies behind the
  various stories
• Michael Mansfield QC
• Barrister
• Studied History at Keele University

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• I always loved history and reading, and I
  wanted to study
• Angela Hartnett
• Celebrity Chef
• Studied History at Cambridge Polytechnic

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• History teaches you to be sceptical about what
  might be presented to you as objective
  information.
• Rachel Attwell
• Deputy Head, BBC Television
• Studied History at Warwick University

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• The most important thing I learnt was that I
  could make a few facts go a hell of a long way.
  I can make a whole dinner party conversation out
  of one fact.
• Richard Lambert
• Director General of British Industry
• Studied History at Balliol College Oxford

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Likely careers!
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• Journalism
• Law
• Police
• Accountancy
• Archaeology
• Teaching
• TV
• Museum
• Politics

• Planning
• Architecture
• Restoration
• Many more

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What you studyis interesting!
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1629-1649
PersonalitiesOf the 1630s
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Irish Rebellion, 1641
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English Civil War, 1642-1646Personalities
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BattlesEdgehill 1642Marston Moor 1644Naseby
1645
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Trial of Charles I, 1649
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Execution of Charles I, 1649
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Oliver Cromwell
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Cromwell in Ireland
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English 11,000 menScots 22,000 menScots lost
3000 dead 10,000 captured English just 20 dead
Cromwell in Scotland
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American Civil War
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Thomas Jefferson Confederacy

• Abraham Lincoln

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General George A. Custer
General Robert E. Lee
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7th New York cavalry, 1862
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General Henry Prince and staff
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Officers of the 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry, 1862
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93rd New York infantry
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Gettysburg, July 1863
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Whitehall Street, 1864
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1865
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