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GCSE · Pearson Edexcel 1HI0
Getting started
5 lessons
Paper 1: Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000 to present, with Whitechapel, c1870 to c1900
7 lessons
- Crime and punishment in medieval England, c1000 to c1500
- Crime and punishment in early modern England, c1500 to c1700
- Crime and punishment, c1700 to c1900: crimes and prisons
- Policing in the 1700s and 1800s: the Fieldings and Peel
- Crime and punishment in modern Britain, c1900 to present
- Whitechapel, c1870 to c1900: crime, policing and the inner city
- Paper 1 exam skills: historic environment and thematic study
Paper 1: Medicine in Britain, c1250 to present, with the British sector of the Western Front, 1914 to 18
7 lessons
- Medieval medicine, c1250 to c1500
- The medical Renaissance, c1500 to c1700
- Medicine in the 18th and 19th centuries
- Surgery, anaesthetics, antiseptics and nursing, c1700 to c1900
- Medicine in modern Britain, c1900 to present
- The British sector of the Western Front, 1914 to 18
- Paper 1 exam skills: historic environment and thematic study
Paper 1: Warfare and British society, c1250 to present, with London and the Second World War, 1939 to 45
6 lessons
- Medieval warfare and English society, c1250 to c1500
- Warfare and English society, c1500 to c1700
- Warfare and British society, c1700 to c1900
- Warfare and British society in the modern era, c1900 to present
- London and the Second World War, 1939 to 45
- Paper 1 exam skills: historic environment and thematic study
Paper 1: Migrants in Britain, c800 to present, with Notting Hill, c1948 to c1970
6 lessons
Paper 2: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060 to 88
4 lessons
Paper 2: The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189 to 1216
4 lessons
Paper 2: Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509 to 40
4 lessons
Paper 2: Early Elizabethan England, 1558 to 88
4 lessons
Paper 2: Spain and the 'New World', c1490 to c1555
4 lessons
Paper 2: British America, 1713 to 83: empire and revolution
4 lessons
Paper 2: The American West, c1835 to c1895
4 lessons
Paper 2: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941 to 91
7 lessons
- Origins of the Cold War, 1941 to 1947
- The Berlin Blockade and two alliances
- Cold War crises, 1956 to 1962
- Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovakia: tension and reaction, 1958 to 70
- Detente and the 'Second Cold War', 1970 to 85
- The end of the Cold War, 1985 to 91
- Paper 2 exam skills: period study and British depth study
Paper 2: Conflict in the Middle East, 1945 to 95
4 lessons
Paper 3: Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917 to 41
9 lessons
- Opposition to the Tsar and the February Revolution, 1917
- The Provisional Government and the Bolshevik Revolution
- Bolshevik consolidation and the Civil War, 1917 to 21
- Totalitarianism, War Communism and the NEP, 1918 to 24
- Stalin's struggle for power, 1924 to 28
- Terror, propaganda and the cult of Stalin
- Collectivisation and the Five-Year Plans
- Life in the Soviet Union, 1924 to 41
- Paper 3 exam skills: sources and interpretations
Paper 3: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918 to 39
9 lessons
- The Weimar Republic, 1918 to 1923
- Recovery under Stresemann, 1924 to 1929
- Changes in Weimar society, 1924 to 29
- The early Nazi Party and the Munich Putsch, 1919 to 28
- Hitler's rise to power, 1929 to 1934
- The Nazi police state, propaganda and opposition
- Nazi policies towards women and the young
- Employment, living standards and persecution
- Paper 3 exam skills: sources and interpretations
Paper 3: Mao's China, 1945 to 76
8 lessons
- The Civil War and communist rule, 1945 to 49
- Consolidating power and the Hundred Flowers, 1951 to 57
- Land reform, collectivisation and the First Five-Year Plan
- The Great Leap Forward and economic reform
- The Cultural Revolution: causes and the Red Guards
- Effects and end of the Cultural Revolution, 1966 to 76
- Life in Mao's China, 1949 to 76
- Paper 3 exam skills: sources and interpretations
Paper 3: The USA, 1954 to 75: conflict at home and abroad
8 lessons
- Civil rights in the 1950s: Brown, Montgomery and Little Rock
- Protest and progress, 1960 to 65
- Malcolm X, Black Power and civil rights, 1963 to 75
- US involvement in Vietnam, 1954 to 64
- The nature of the war in Vietnam, 1964 to 68
- Nixon and Vietnamisation, 1969 to 73
- Opposition, peace and US failure in Vietnam
- Paper 3 exam skills: sources and interpretations
International GCSE · Pearson Edexcel 4HI1
Getting started
5 lessons
Paper 1: The French Revolution, c1780 to 99
6 lessons
Paper 1: Development of a nation: unification of Italy, 1848 to 70
6 lessons
Paper 1: Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918 to 45
9 lessons
- The Weimar Republic, 1918 to 1923
- Recovery under Stresemann, 1924 to 1929
- The early Nazi Party and the Munich Putsch, 1919 to 28
- Hitler's rise to power, 1929 to 1934
- The Nazi police state, propaganda and opposition
- Nazi policies towards women and the young
- Employment, living standards and persecution
- Germany and the occupied territories in the Second World War
- International GCSE History exam skills
Paper 1: Colonial rule and the nationalist challenge in India, 1919 to 47
6 lessons
Paper 1: Dictatorship and conflict in the USSR, 1924 to 53
6 lessons
Paper 1: A world divided: superpower relations, 1943 to 72
6 lessons
Paper 1: A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945 to 74
7 lessons
Paper 1: South Africa: from union to the end of apartheid, 1948 to 94
6 lessons
Paper 2: A1 The origins and course of the First World War, 1905 to 18
6 lessons
Paper 2: A2 Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905 to 24
6 lessons
Paper 2: A3 The USA, 1918 to 41
6 lessons
Paper 2: A4 The Vietnam Conflict, 1945 to 75
7 lessons
- The struggle against France for independence, 1945 to 54
- US involvement in Vietnam, 1954 to 64
- The nature of the war in Vietnam, 1964 to 68
- Nixon and Vietnamisation, 1969 to 73
- Opposition, peace and US failure in Vietnam
- The impact of the war on civilians and attitudes in the USA
- International GCSE History exam skills
Paper 2: A5 East Germany, 1958 to 90
6 lessons
Paper 2: B1 America: from new nation to divided union, 1783 to 1877
6 lessons
Paper 2: B2 Changes in medicine, c1848 to c1948
6 lessons
- Progress in the mid-19th century: Nightingale, Chadwick, Snow and Simpson
- Discovery and development, 1860 to 75: Pasteur and Lister
- Accelerating change, 1875 to 1905: Koch, Ehrlich and chemistry
- Government action and war, 1905 to 20
- Advances in medicine and the NHS, 1920 to 48
- International GCSE History exam skills
Paper 2: B3 Japan in transformation, 1853 to 1945
6 lessons
Paper 2: B4 China: conflict, crisis and change, 1900 to 89
9 lessons
- The fall of the Qing, warlordism and chaos, 1900 to 34
- The triumph of Mao and the CCP, 1934 to 49
- Consolidating power and the Hundred Flowers, 1951 to 57
- Land reform, collectivisation and the First Five-Year Plan
- The Great Leap Forward and economic reform
- The Cultural Revolution: causes and the Red Guards
- Effects and end of the Cultural Revolution, 1966 to 76
- China, 1976 to 89: Deng's reforms and Tiananmen
- International GCSE History exam skills