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The department aims to help the girls to:
- Have an interest in the past, through examining past societies
and peoples’ actions, beliefs and values.
- Understand the present in the context of the past so that
the background for contemporary events is appreciated.
- Understand their society and cultural roots, therefore giving
them a sense of identity.
- Appreciate the nature and cultural roots of different societies
and to see shared beliefs and influences.
- Analyse sources of evidence to find out about the past.
- Through visiting historical sites, have concern for their
heritage.
Brief Details of the Topics covered in the Senior School:
Form I
Introduction: What is History?
Medieval Realms: Britain 1066-1500
Mediaeval Britain, from the Battle of Hastings, including the
main social, cultural and political aspects of the period.
Tudor Link – Henry VII and Henry VIII
Islamic Civilisations - main political, social, scientific, religious
and cultural aspects of Islam, 7th to 16th Centuries - taught
by the RS Department and the Crusades covered in history lessons.
Form II
The Making of the United Kingdom: 1500 to 1750
Tudor Link – Henry VIII continued, Edward, Mary and Elizabeth
I – an outline
The Stuarts
To include: the Gunpowder Plot, Charles I, the Civil War, Cromwell,
the Restoration, the Plague and Fire of London, James II, the
Glorious Revolution, William and Mary and the Jacobites.
The French Revolution - An outline of the causes, events and consequences
of the French Revolution.
Link to the Industrial Revolution – the Agrarian Revolution
in Britain.
Form III
Britain 1750 – 1900
Industrial Revolution – selected industries, working conditions,
transport and trade (including the Slave Trade), living conditions,
disease and poverty, protest and reform.
The Twentieth Century World
The First World War.
The Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler.
Nazi Germany, the Second World War, the Holocaust and the dropping
of the atomic bomb on Japan.
Aspects of the post war world.
Form IV and Form V – Modern World GCSE Course
The course consists of 2 depth studies:
- The Russian Revolution 1910-24
- Conflict in Vietnam 1963-75
There are 2 outline studies:
- The Soviet Union 1928-91
- Superpower Relations 1945-90
There are 2 coursework topics, comprising 25% of the GCSE mark:
- Votes for Women 1900-28
- The Home Front during the First World War
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