History at Greenhead College

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History at Greenhead College
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• Why Study History?
• Because you enjoy history.
• Because the past fascinates you.
• Because you want to learn more about the past.

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Skills that History Student Develop

• The ability to ANALYSE
• The ability to make informed CRITICISMS
• Fluent ORAL SKILLS
• The ability to listen and work with others
  -TEAMWORK
• SELF RELIANCE
• ORGANISATION
• To develop your OWN OPINION

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Courses Offered

• Medieval History
• AS and A2

• Modern History

AS and A2
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AQA Modern History AS Tsarist Russia, 1855-1917

• Tsar Alexander II and emancipation
• Tsar Alexander III and repression
• Witte, Stolypin and economic reform
• War with Japan and the 1905 revolution
• Tsar Nicholas II, and the First World War
• The revolutions of 1917

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AQA Modern History ASBritish History 1902-1918

• Party Politics
• Liberals, Conservatives and Labour
• Changing Status of Women
• Suffragettes
• The Welfare State
• Ireland
• Impact of the First World War

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AQA Modern History A2

• Britain, 1865 to 1915
• The British Empire
• Gladstone, Disraeli and British domestic politics
• Britain and Ireland
• British foreign policy
• New Liberalism and reform
• Personal Study

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AQA Medieval History AS

• Causes of the Crusades
• Course of the Crusades

• The Norman Conquest
• England, 1066 to 1087

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AQA Medieval History AS

• First Crusade
• Louis VII and the Second Crusade
• Knights Templar
• Richard the Lionheart
• And Saladin
• Failure of the Third Crusade

• Norman Conquest
• Victory at Hastings
• Rebellion
• Feudalism and Normanisation
• Lanfranc and English Church

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AQA Medieval History A2 Britain 1153-1216

• The Angevin Empire
• Henry II and Thomas Becket
• Eleanor of Aquitaine
• Knights, tournaments and the career of William
  the Marshal
• Anti semitism in medieval England
• King Richard and King John

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Trips and Visits

• Medieval History
• Normandy
• York
• Fountains Abbey

• Modern History
• Belgium, the Somme, Berlin

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GREENHEAD COLLEGES
Berlin Trip
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Medieval trip to the Loire valley
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Careers

• History provides a good background for many
  careers
• Publishing, museums, art galleries and
  librarianship.
• Banking, accountancy, commerce and the law.
• Teaching, social work, public relations.

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