Course Content
This section details the courses offered by the History Department
S1
- Finding out - an introduction to the skills need as a historian
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The Rennaissance
- an overview of an amazing period of scientific, social and world discovery
S2
- Black Peoples of America - looking at Britain's involvement in the slave trade, emancipation and civil rights.
- The 1960s - a whirlwind tour of the swinging sixties taking in social changes, music, art, the space race, JFK and the fears of the cold war world.
S3 & S4 Standard Grade course
- Changing life in Scotland and Britain 1880 - 1930 - Population growth, working the land, Railways, Mining, Health and Housing, Suffragettes.
- Co-operation and Conflict - 1890's - 1920's - Causes of WW1, Life in trenches, Peacemaking
- Russia 1914 -1941 - Tsarist Russia, Revolution, Lenin, Stalin
S5 Higher
- Paper I - Two Topics: The Growth of Nationalism - Germany 1815-1939, and Britain 1850's - 1979.
- Paper II - The Cold War - Emergence of Cold War, Nuclear arms race, Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and more!
S6 Advanced Higher
- Northern Britain from the Romans to 1000AD