| At Key Stage 3 pupils study Medieval Realms; Islamic Civilisations; the Making of the United Kingdom; the European Reformation; Expansion Trade and Industry (with particular reference to Population Growth, and the Agrarian, Transport and Industrial Revolutions); the First World War, and Britain in the Twentieth Century. These areas of study are rich in resources and provide a solid foundation of skills and knowledge upon which to build in the GCSE and A Level years.
At GCSE the department offers the OCR Board's Twentieth Century World History course. This embraces such topics as the League of Nations; the collapse of international peace by 1939; Weimar and Nazi Germany, and the outbreak and collapse of the Cold War. Coursework is based in the First World War.
By way of complete contrast, at AS/A2 students are offered Early Modern modules on 16th Century Tudor history (focusing upon the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth), which are balanced by European modules studying the French Revolution at AS level, and Russian Dictatorship in the Nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the latter the focus is upon the last Czars, Lenin, Stalin and Kruschev. History has been a popular choice at degree level in recent years and we have enjoyed steady success in Oxbridge entry.
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The department is well equipped with its own extensive library, and up-to-date video and ICT resources. Much importance is also attached to taking the subject outside the classroom with visits to sites of historical importance and to museums. Over the last four years there have been trips to Berlin, Krakow, Paris, the First World War battlefields of Flanders, Normandy, the Palace of Westminster, the Imperial War Museum, Stansted Mountfitchet and Hedingham Castle. These have been very popular and have provided an extra dimension and fascinating new insights into the subject.
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