Knowledge, skills and understanding: Papers 1 and 2

Conquest, control and resistance in the medieval world

Religion and the state in early modern Europe

Revolutions in early modern and modern Europe

Challenges to the authority of the state in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Communist states in the twentieth century

Searching for rights and freedoms in the twentieth century

Nationalism, dictatorship and democracy in twentieth-century Europe

Democracies in change: Britain and the USA in the twentieth century

Knowledge, skills and understanding: Paper 3

Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII, 1399–1509

Rebellion and disorder under the Tudors, 1485–1603

The Golden Age of Spain, 1474–1598

The witch craze in Britain, Europe and North America, c1580–c1750

Industrialisation and social change in Britain, 1759–1928: forging a new society

Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939

Britain: losing and gaining an empire, 1763–1914

The British experience of warfare, c1790–1918

Protest, agitation and parliamentary reform in Britain, c1780–1928

Ireland and the Union, c1774–1923

The changing nature of warfare, 1859–1991: perception and reality

Germany, 1871–1990: united, divided and reunited

The making of modern Russia, 1855–1991

The making of modern China, 1860–1997

Civil rights and race relations in the USA, 1850–2009

Mass media and social change in Britain, 1882–2004

Coursework

Coursework: overview, content and learning objectives

History

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