Course Content

This section details the courses offered by the History Department

S1

  • Finding out - an introduction to the skills need as a historian
  • 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
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