The department aims to provide a stimulating, challenging, enriching and rewarding programme that provides our students with a broad understanding of the subject.


Students will learn to use all the skills of a historian, understanding that the subject has a methodology that is unique yet one which will be applicable to a wide range of situations throughout life. These skills include independent research, critical analysis and the ability to communicate in a fluent, persuasive and effective manner both orally and on paper. Students will also have the opportunity to develop their ability to think conceptually, examining such ideas as causation, change, continuity, reliability and bias as well as historiography. Above all we hope to foster a lasting and deep love for the subject, one that will stimulate a lifelong engagement in our students and equip them with skills which will help them make sense of the world in which they live.

In Year 13 students study two units to complete their A Level studies in History. 
Unit Three is a study of the Protest, Agitation and Parliamentary Reform from c1780 to 1928. 
Unit Four is a coursework unit based on historians’ interpretations of the origins of the Cold War. 
They will also revise the units they studied in Year 12.

A high level of commitment is required for the A Level course. There will be a good deal of reading and sustained application is needed if a good grade to be achieved. This is a course for those who are motivated and who enjoy the subject and who are prepared to work hard.