Pearson Edexcel GCSE History (1HI0)
96 free lessons that follow the GCSE specification topic by topic. Each lesson has short notes, a worked example and a quick check with instant marking.
GCSE · Pearson Edexcel 1HI0
Getting started
5 lessons · about 74 minutes
Paper 1: Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000 to present, with Whitechapel, c1870 to c1900
10 lessons · about 2 h 45 min
- Crime and punishment in medieval England, c1000 to c1500 · video 17 min
- Crime and punishment in early modern England, c1500 to c1700 · video 17 min
- Crime and punishment, c1700 to c1900: crimes and prisons · video 18 min
- Policing in the 1700s and 1800s: the Fieldings and Peel · video 15 min
- Ending the Bloody Code and transportation, c1700 to c1900 16 min
- Crime and punishment in modern Britain, c1900 to present · video 18 min
- Changing definitions of crime and new punishments, c1900 to present 16 min
- Whitechapel, c1870 to c1900: crime, policing and the inner city · video 18 min
- Whitechapel: sources and following up an enquiry 16 min
- Paper 1 exam skills: historic environment and thematic study · video 16 min
Paper 1: Medicine in Britain, c1250 to present, with the British sector of the Western Front, 1914 to 18
10 lessons · about 2 h 45 min
- Medieval medicine, c1250 to c1500 · video 16 min
- The medical Renaissance, c1500 to c1700 · video 16 min
- Who treated the sick? Care and prevention, c1250 to c1700 17 min
- Medicine in the 18th and 19th centuries · video 17 min
- Surgery, anaesthetics, antiseptics and nursing, c1700 to c1900 · video 16 min
- Government and public health, c1840 to present 17 min
- Medicine in modern Britain, c1900 to present · video 18 min
- The British sector of the Western Front, 1914 to 1918 · video 18 min
- Western Front: illness, shell shock and new surgery 16 min
- Paper 1 exam skills: historic environment and thematic study · video 16 min
Paper 1: Warfare and British society, c1250 to present, with London and the Second World War, 1939 to 45
6 lessons · about 1 h 40 min
- Medieval warfare and English society, c1250 to c1500 · video 17 min
- Warfare and English society, c1500 to c1700 · video 15 min
- Warfare and British society, c1700 to c1900 · video 17 min
- Warfare and British society in the modern era, c1900 to present · video 18 min
- London and the Second World War, 1939 to 1945 · video 18 min
- Paper 1 exam skills: historic environment and thematic study · video 16 min
Paper 1: Migrants in Britain, c800 to present, with Notting Hill, c1948 to c1970
6 lessons · about 1 h 45 min
- Migration in medieval England, c800 to c1500 · video 17 min
- Migration in early modern England, c1500 to c1700 · video 17 min
- Migration in Britain, c1700 to c1900 · video 18 min
- Migration in modern Britain, c1900 to present · video 18 min
- Notting Hill, c1948 to c1970 · video 18 min
- Paper 1 exam skills: historic environment and thematic study · video 16 min
Paper 2: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060 to 88
4 lessons · about 70 minutes
Paper 2: The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189 to 1216
4 lessons · about 70 minutes
Paper 2: Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509 to 40
4 lessons · about 70 minutes
Paper 2: Early Elizabethan England, 1558 to 88
4 lessons · about 70 minutes
Paper 2: Spain and the 'New World', c1490 to c1555
4 lessons · about 70 minutes
Paper 2: British America, 1713 to 83: empire and revolution
4 lessons · about 70 minutes
Paper 2: The American West, c1835 to c1895
4 lessons · about 70 minutes
Paper 2: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941 to 91
7 lessons · about 2 h
- Origins of the Cold War, 1941 to 1947 · video 17 min
- The Berlin Blockade and two alliances · video 16 min
- Cold War crises, 1956 to 1962 · video 17 min
- Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovakia: tension and reaction, 1958 to 1970 · video 18 min
- Detente and the 'Second Cold War', 1970 to 1985 · video 17 min
- The end of the Cold War, 1985 to 1991 · video 18 min
- Paper 2 exam skills: period study and British depth study · video 16 min
Paper 2: Conflict in the Middle East, 1945 to 95
4 lessons · about 70 minutes
Paper 3: Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917 to 41
9 lessons · about 2 h 35 min
- Opposition to the Tsar and the February Revolution, 1917 · video 16 min
- The Provisional Government and the Bolshevik Revolution · video 17 min
- Bolshevik consolidation and the Civil War, 1917 to 1921 · video 17 min
- Totalitarianism, War Communism and the NEP, 1918 to 1924 · video 17 min
- Stalin's struggle for power, 1924 to 1928 · video 16 min
- Terror, propaganda and the cult of Stalin · video 18 min
- Collectivisation and the Five-Year Plans · video 18 min
- Life in the Soviet Union, 1924 to 1941 · video 16 min
- Paper 3 exam skills: sources and interpretations · video 18 min
Paper 3: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918 to 39
9 lessons · about 2 h 30 min
- The Weimar Republic, 1918 to 1923 · video 17 min
- Recovery under Stresemann, 1924 to 1929 · video 15 min
- Changes in Weimar society, 1924 to 1929 · video 15 min
- The early Nazi Party and the Munich Putsch, 1919 to 1928 · video 17 min
- Hitler's rise to power, 1929 to 1934 · video 18 min
- The Nazi police state, propaganda and opposition · video 18 min
- Nazi policies towards women and the young · video 16 min
- Employment, living standards and persecution · video 18 min
- Paper 3 exam skills: sources and interpretations · video 18 min
Paper 3: Mao's China, 1945 to 76
8 lessons · about 2 h 20 min
- The Civil War and communist rule, 1945 to 1949 · video 17 min
- Consolidating power and the Hundred Flowers, 1951 to 1957 · video 16 min
- Land reform, collectivisation and the First Five-Year Plan · video 17 min
- The Great Leap Forward and economic reform · video 18 min
- The Cultural Revolution: causes and the Red Guards · video 17 min
- Effects and end of the Cultural Revolution, 1966 to 1976 · video 17 min
- Life in Mao's China, 1949 to 1976 · video 18 min
- Paper 3 exam skills: sources and interpretations · video 18 min
Paper 3: The USA, 1954 to 75: conflict at home and abroad
8 lessons · about 2 h 20 min
- Civil rights in the 1950s: Brown, Montgomery and Little Rock · video 18 min
- Protest and progress, 1960 to 1965 · video 18 min
- Malcolm X, Black Power and civil rights, 1963 to 1975 · video 18 min
- US involvement in Vietnam, 1954 to 1964 · video 18 min
- The nature of the war in Vietnam, 1964 to 1968 · video 18 min
- Nixon and Vietnamisation, 1969 to 1973 · video 16 min
- Opposition, peace and US failure in Vietnam · video 18 min
- Paper 3 exam skills: sources and interpretations · video 18 min