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A level History

Transition and Skills

booklet

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Course outline The history course follows the WJEC Specification. https://www.wjec.co.uk/media/uwlondvv/wjec-gce-history-spec-from-2015-e.pdf

Your centre will pick one from the following topics:

Unit 1

Written examination 1 hour 30 minutes

20% of qualification

In this unit you will: - Study a period of around 100 years

- Focus over a broader timescale

- Study a range of significant topics

- Appreciate a range of historical

perspectives

- Study issues of cause and

consequences as well a change and

continuity

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Unit 2

Written examination 1 hour 45 minutes

20% of qualification

In this unit you will: - Study the first half in Y12 and continue this course as unit 4 in Y13 - This is a depth study so it’s a shorter period

of history

- You will use a wide range of historical

evidence – looking at the value of three

historical sources

- You will study issues and look at how

historians have debated these issues.

- You will analyse and evaluate different

interpretations and discuss how and why they

have been formed

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Keeping it Fresh……..

It is important to keep the knowledge you have gained at GCSE

fresh in your mind ready to start your A levels in September.

Why not spend some time looking over some past papers and

using the mark schemes to assess how well you’ve done.

Planning Ahead…….

In order to prepare yourself for further study, have a look at the resources below:

https://resources.wjec.co.uk/Pages/ResourceByArgs.aspx?subId=17&lvlId=1

https://resources.wjec.co.uk/Pages/ResourceSingle.aspx?rIid=118

Unit 1

https://resources.wjec.co.uk/Pages/ResourceSingle.aspx?rIid=2797

https://www.wjec.co.uk/media/reqbgztu/wjec-gce-unit1-history-sams-from-2015.pdf

Unit 2

https://resources.wjec.co.uk/Pages/ResourceSingle.aspx?rIid=2835&langChange=en-GB

https://resources.wjec.co.uk/Pages/ResourceSingle.aspx?rIid=798

https://www.wjec.co.uk/media/jaxnqjsk/wjec-gce-unit2-history-sams-from-2015.pdf

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Getting ready to study…..

Completing some of the following activities will help prepare you for studying

A Level History in September:

❖ Firstly, find out which topics you will be studying for Unit 1 and Unit 2

❖ Maybe look at the Specification for the main content of those topics in that unit.

❖ Look at the book recommendations and read around your topic areas for Unit 1

and Unit 2

❖ Maybe watch a film or documentary from the recommendations and produce

some notes on the topics.

❖ Maybe follow historians on social media

❖ Evaluate the historical sources attached in this booklet

Social Media / Website links / Podcasts Some suggestions:

https://www.history.org.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/

https://www.historyhit.com/

https://www.historyextra.com/

https://www.history.co.uk/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07mdbhg

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hmmf

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Book Recommendations Reading for and beyond the course:

These reading lists are not compulsory. They are a selection of books which

could be of use when looking and researching your topic area.

Unit 1 PERIOD STUDY 1: GOVERNMENT, REBELLION AND SOCIETY IN WALES

AND ENGLAND, c.1485-1603

General textbooks for this period study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

Companion to the Tudor Age Rosemary O’Day 978-0582067240 Longman

Britain, 1483-1529 Cathy Lee 978048782611 Nelson

An Introduction to Tudor England 1485-1603

Angela Anderson

9780340683880 Hodder

The Early Tudors: England 1485-1558

Samantha Ellsmore et al.

9780719574849 Hodder

The Tudor Monarchies 1485-1603

John McGurk 9780521596657 CUP

England 1485-1603 D. Murphy et al. 9780003271249 Collins

England Under The Tudors G R Elton 9780415065337 CUP

The History of Wales H. Thomas 0708304664 UWP

Tudor England John Guy 9780192852137 OUP

Hanes Cymru yn y Cyfnod Modern Cynnar 1530-1760

Geraint H. Jenkins,

9780708309988

University of Wales Press

Harri’r VIII a Chrefydd Lucy Wooding

http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/departmental/caa/Harri-VIII-a-Chrefydd-.pdf

The Acts of Union John Davies http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/periods/tudors_04.shtml

http://www.historytoday.com/re-foster/conflicts-and-loyalties-parliaments-elizabeth-i

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Book Recommendations Reading for and beyond the course:

These reading lists are not compulsory. They are a selection of books which

could be of use when looking and researching your topic area.

PERIOD STUDY 2

GOVERNMENT, REVOLUTION AND SOCIETY IN WALES AND ENGLAND, c.1603-1715

General textbooks for this period study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

Companion to the Stuart Age John Wroughton 978-0582257757 Longman

An Introduction to Stuart Britain 1603-1714

Angela Anderson

9780340737446 Hodder

Stuart England 1603-1714 Barry Coward 9780582084056 Longman

Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1485-1714

Roger Lockyer 9780582771888 Longman

Studies in Stuart Wales A.H. Dodd 9780900768859 UWP

The Stuart Age: England 1603-1714

Barry Coward

9780582772519

Longman

A History of Wales, 1660-1815 E.D. Evans 0708306241 UWP

PERIOD STUDY 3

POLITICS, PROTEST AND REFORM IN WALES AND ENGLAND, c.1780-1880

General textbooks for this period study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

British History for AS Level: 1783-1850

Derek Peaple 9781902796192 Pearson

The Forging of the Modern State 1783-1870

Eric Evans 058248970-9 Pearson

Wales in an Age of Change 1815-1918

Roger Turvey 1 85644 769 4 Gomer

Britain 1815-1918 Flagship History

Derrick Murphy 0 00327278 8 Collins

Years of Expansion 1815-1914

Michael Scott-Baumann

0 340 790814 Hodder and Stoughton

Wales and England 1783 – 1832 , Geraint Jones

http://hwb.wales.gov.uk/Resources/resource/23bea1d1-2528-49b4-

806a-870860183225

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Book Recommendations Reading for and beyond the course:

These reading lists are not compulsory. They are a selection of books which

could be of use when looking and researching your topic area.

PERIOD STUDY 4

POLITICS, PEOPLE AND PROGRESS: WALES AND ENGLAND, c.1880-1980

General textbooks for this period study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

Britain 1890 – 1924 Mike Byrne 9780340965849 Hodder

Britain 1890 – 1939 Rosemary Rees

978435327576 Heinemann

Britain in the 20th Century

Liz Petheram 0174452330 Nelson Thorne

Britain 1914-2000 Derrick Murphy

0003271315 Collins

Britain in the Twentieth Century

Ian Cawood 9780415254571 Routledge

Modern British History

Michael Lynch 0340775254 Hodder

Britain 1900-51 Michael Lynch 97803409659-8 Hodder

Hanes Prydain 1914-1964

Geraint Lewis Jones

9780708309720 University of

Wales Press

Edwardian Britain – on YOUTUBE by Andrew Marr (BBC) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tRJ1E9Ai2E

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Book Recommendations Reading for and beyond the course:

These reading lists are not compulsory. They are a selection of books which

could be of use when looking and researching your topic area.

PERIOD STUDY 5

POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN EUROPE, c.1500-1598

General textbooks for this period study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

Europe 1450-1661 Murphy, Tillbrook and Walsh Atkins

0003271307 Collins Educational

Years of Renewal – European History 1470-1600

John Lotherington 0340721286 Hodder and Stoughton

Europe in the sixteenth century

Koenigsberger, Mosse and Bowler

0582493900 Longman

PERIOD STUDY 6

EUROPE IN THE AGE OF ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION, c.1682-1815

General textbooks for this period study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

The Rise of the Great Powers 1648-1815

Derek McKay &H.M.Scott

0582485541 Longman

Eighteenth century Europe

Stuart Andrews 0582351723 Longman

Europe in the Eighteenth century

M S Anderson 9780582357433 Pearson

Europe, 1780-1830 F L Ford 0582493927 Longman

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

Paul Kennedy 0006860524 Fontana

The Making of Modern Europe 1648-1780

Geoffrey Treasure 0416723705 Methuen

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Book Recommendations Reading for and beyond the course:

These reading lists are not compulsory. They are a selection of books which

could be of use when looking and researching your topic area.

PERIOD STUDY 7 REVOLUTION AND NEW IDEAS IN EUROPE, c.1780-1881

General textbooks for this period study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

International relations 1814-70 John Lowe 0340534966 Hodder

European History 1848-1945 T A Morris 0003272753 Collins

The 1848 revolutions Peter Jones 0582353122 Longman

Years of Nationalism 1815-1890 Cowie and Wolfson

0713173289 Hodder

Revolutions and nationalities 1825-1890

Peter Browning 052178607X CUP

Revolutions and reaction, Europe 1789-1849

Richard Brown David Smith

0521567343 Cambridge Univ. Press

Alexander III, Tsar Rwsia 1881-1889 John Etty

PERIOD STUDY 8

EUROPE IN AN AGE OF CONFLICT AND CO-OPERATION, c.1890-1991

General textbooks for this period study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

Years of Change 1890-1945

Wolfson and Laver 0340630876 Hodder

European History 1848-1945

TA Morris 0003272753 Collins

The European Dictatorships 1918-45

Stephen J Lee 0415027853 Routledge

European history 1890-1990

Wolfson and Laver 9780340775264 Hodder Murray

Modern Europe 1870-1945

Christopher Culpin 9780582084087 Pearson

Cyflwyniad i Hanes yr Ewrop Fodern 1890-1990

Alan Farmer 1856448754 CAA

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Book Recommendations Reading for and beyond the course:

These reading lists are not compulsory. They are a selection of books which

could be of use when looking and researching your topic area.

DEPTH STUDY 1

THE MID-TUDOR CRISIS IN WALES AND ENGLAND, 1529-1570

General textbooks for this depth study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

The Mid-Tudor crisis, 1536-1569 Nick Fellows 0435312685 Heinemann

Change and protest 1536-1588 Nigel Heard and Roger Turvey

0340986778 Hodder

The mid-Tudor crisis, 1545-1565 David Loades 0333523385 Macmillan

Wales and the Tudor State 1534-1603

Gwynfor Jones 0708310397 UWP

Authority and disorder in Tudor times 1485-1603

Paul Thomas 0521626641 Cambridge

Protest, crisis and rebellion, 1536-1588

Angela Anderson and Sarah Moffat

1846905079 Pearson

DEPTH STUDY 2

ROYALTY, REBELLION AND REPUBLIC, c.1625-1660 General textbooks for this depth study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

Stuart Britain 1603-1714 Angela Anderson 9780340737446 Hodder

Britain, 1625-1642: the Failure of Absolutism David Farr 9780748782857 Nelsons

The Politics of the Principality 1603-42

Lloyd Bowen

9780708319062 UWP

Crown and Parliaments 1558-1689 G.E. Seel 9780521775373 CUP

Authority and Conflict In England 1603-58

D. Hirst 9780713161564 Hodder

Charles I 1625-1640 B. Quintrell 9780582003545 Pearson

The early Stuarts 1603-40 K. Brice 9780340575109 Hodder

The Interregnum 1649-60 Michael Lynch 9780340582077 Hodder

England in Crisis 1640-60 David Sharp 9780435327149 Heinemann

The English Republic 1649-1660 Toby Barnard 9780582080034 Pearson

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Book Recommendations Reading for and beyond the course:

These reading lists are not compulsory. They are a selection of books which

could be of use when looking and researching your topic area.

DEPTH STUDY 3

REFORM AND PROTEST IN WALES AND ENGLAND, c.1783-1848

General textbooks for this depth study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

British History for AS Level: 1783-1850

Derek Peaple 9781902796192 Pearson

The Forging of the Modern State 1783-1870

Eric Evans 0582489709 Pearson

Wales in an Age of Change 1815-1918

Roger Turvey 1856447694 Gomer

Britain 1815-1918 Derrick Murphy 0003272788 Collins

Years of Expansion British History 1815-1914

Michael Scott-Baumann

0340790814 Hodder and Stoughton

Peel and the Conservative Party 1830-50

Paul Adelman 0582355575 Pearson

Sir Robert Peel Eric Evans 041536616X Routledge

The Rebecca Riots Catrin Stevens 184323695 Gomer

The Rebecca Riots: A study in Agrarian Discontent

D. Williams 0708323960 University of Wales

And they blessed Rebecca Pat Molloy 0863831877 Gomer

DEPTH STUDY 4

POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN WALES AND ENGLAND, 1900-1939

General textbooks for this depth study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

Wales 1880-1914

T Herbert, G E Jones

0-7083-0967-4 UWP

Modern Wales: Politics, Places and People

K O Morgan 0-7083-13175 UWP

Wales and the First World War Robin Barlow 9780708319703 UWP

Wales at War Tony Curtis 978-1-854-11450 Seren Press

Aftermath: remembering the Great War in Wales

Angela Gaffney 0708316808-9 UWP

Britain: Domestic Politics 1918 – 1939

Robert Pearce 0340556471 Hodder

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Book Recommendations Reading for and beyond the course:

These reading lists are not compulsory. They are a selection of books which

could be of use when looking and researching your topic area.

DEPTH STUDY 5 RELIGIOUS REFORMATION IN EUROPE c.1500-1567

General textbooks for this depth study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

Luther and the German Reformation1517-55

Keith Randell

0340749296 Hodder

The Protestant Reformation in Europe

Andrew Johnston

0582070201 Longman

The German Reformation- Second Edition

R.W. Scribner C. Scott Dixon

0333665287 Palgrave

The German Reformation

C. Scott Dixon

0631208119 Blackwell

The Catholic and Counter Reformation

Keith Randell

034-534958 Hodder

The European Reformation 1500-1610

Alastair Armstrong

0435327100 Heinemann

John Calvin: Creu’r Diwygiwr

Michael Mullett

The European Reformation

Euan Cameron

0198730934 Oxford

Reformation- Europe’s House Divided, 1490-1700

Diarmaid Mac Culloch

0140285342 Penguin

Reformation in Europe, c1500-1564

Philip Stanton

9780748782666 Nelson

The Reformation in Germany and Switzerland

Pamela Johnston and Bob Scribner

0521406072 Cambridge University

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Book Recommendations Reading for and beyond the course:

These reading lists are not compulsory. They are a selection of books which

could be of use when looking and researching your topic area.

DEPTH STUDY 6

FRANCE IN REVOLUTION: c1774-1815 General textbooks for this depth study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

France in Revolution Dylan Rees 978-0-340-88899-5

Hodder Murray

The French Revolution 1787-1804 P M Jones 9781408204382 Pearson Oxford History of the French Revolution William Doyle 9780199252985 OUP

The French Revolution. John Hardman 0713163275 Edward Arnold

Citizens: A chronicle of the French

Revolution

Simon Schama 9780141017273 Penguin

The fall of the French monarchy 1787-

1792 Michel Vovelle 0521247233 Cambridge UP

The French Revolution George Rude Weidenfeld & Nicolson

The French Revolution Introductory

Documents D.I Wright (ed) 0702209236 University of

Queensland

The French Revolution. Voices from a

momentous epoch 1789-1795

Richard Cobb and Colin Jones

0671699253 Simon and Schuster

The Coming of the French Revolution Georges Lefebvre 0691007519 Princeton

The Longman Companion to the French

Revolution Colin Jones 0582494184 Longman

The French Revolution. A Concise History Norman Hampson

0500820031 Thames & Hudson

The French Revolution 1787-1799 Albert Soboul 0044453817 Unwin Hyman

The French Revolution 1789-99 History

ant Source E G Rayner and R F Stapley

0340627042 Hodder and Stoughton

The Fall of the French Monarchy Munro Price 0330488279 Pan

The French Revolution Rethinking the

Debate

Gwynn Lewis 0415054664 Routledge

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Book Recommendations Reading for and beyond the course:

These reading lists are not compulsory. They are a selection of books which

could be of use when looking and researching your topic area.

DEPTH STUDY 7 THE CRISIS OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC c.1840-1877

General textbooks for this depth study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

Causes, Courses and Consequences 1803-1877

Alan Farmer

9780340965870 Hodder

Rhyfel Cartef America: Achosion y rhyfel, ei gwrs a’I ganlyniadau, 1803-1877

Alan Farmer 9781848513099 Gomer

The American Civil War, 1861-1865

Reid Mitchell 9780582319738 Pearson

The American Civil War Adam Smith 0333790544 Palgrave

Battle Cry Freedom James Machperson

019 5038630 Oxford

The American Civil War Peter Parish 084190197X Holmes and Mercer

America Aflame David Goldfield 9781536917026 Bloomsbury

The Origins of the American Civil War

Brian Holden Reid

0582491770 Pearson

The Debate of the American Civil War

H. Tulloch 0 71904938 5 Manchester

Abraham Lincoln & Civil War America

W. Gienapp 0195151003 Oxford

Notes from Hwb http://hwb.wales.gov.uk/Resources/resource/276ef139-6ddd-435a-9f72-

1417c1bddee9

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Book Recommendations Reading for and beyond the course:

These reading lists are not compulsory. They are a selection of books which

could be of use when looking and researching your topic area.

DEPTH STUDY 8

GERMANY: Democracy to Dictatorship c.1918 - 1945 General textbooks for this depth study

Title Author ISBN Publisher

Years of Weimar and the Third Reich

David Evans and Jane Jenkins

0340704748 Hodder

Blynyddoedd Gweriniaeth Weimar a'r Drydedd Reich

David Evans and

Jane Jenkins 1856448878 CAA

Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party

Frank McDonough

9780582506060 Pearson

From Kaiser to Fuhrer: Germany 1900-45

Martin Collier 9780435308056 Pearson

Anti-Semitism, Hitler and the German People, 1919-1945

Chris Rowe and Alan Gillingham

9780748782604 Nelson

Germany 1919-45 Martin Collier Philip Pedley

0435327216 Heinemann

A Social History of the Third Reich

Richard Grunberger 0140136754 Penguin

Germany: The Third Reich 1933-1945

Geoff Layton 9780340888940 Hodder

Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

Robert Whitfield 9781408503133 Nelson

The Nazi Dictatorship Ian Kershaw 0713164085 Edward Arnold

Hitler and Nazism Dick Geary 0415000580 Routledge

Hitler’s Germany Jenkins and Feuchtwanger

0719585546 John Murray

Explaining Hitler’s Germany

Hiden and Farquharson

0713462574 Batsford Academic

The Third Reich K .Hildebrand 041507861X Routledge

Hitler Norman Stone O340275383 Coronet

Hitler: a Study in Tyranny Alan Bullock 0140135642 Penguin

The Third Reich David Williamson 9781408223192 Pearson

Hitler J P Stern 0006861954 Fontana

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Movie Recommendations

https://www.tudorhistory.org/movies/

Elizabeth (1998) / Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Starring Cate Blanchett

Profiling Elizabeth’s life in Elizabethan times.

Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)

Starring Robert Carlyle

Profiling the life of Adolf Hitler

Metropolis (1927)

Starring Gustav Frohlich

It’s a Weimar German expressionist science fiction drama

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Source Skills – Evaluate these following Sources - DAAMIT

Date When was it produced?

Author Who produced it? What was their background?

Audience Who was the intended audience? What do you know about this audience?

Motive What was the author’s purpose/motive? (entertain/inform/persuade/mislead?) How might these motives have influenced the perspective offered by the source?

Information What information does it provide? Where is the information drawn from? Is it produced in a way that we would expect a source of its kind to be produced? How reliable is it likely to be? Are there any limitations?

Tone What is the perspective and tone offered by the source? What insight does this give into the views and standpoints of the author? How reliable is it likely to be in light of previous considerations?

INPUT SOURCE

SOURCE ATTRIBUTION

Is this source valuable to an historian?