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A fresh and engaging approach to A level History


Instead of spoon-feeding students with uninspiring, exam-led courses, your students can learn to think more deeply and engage more passionately with real History. Armed with a deeper and more precise understanding of the subject, your students can reach their highest potential.

Key features:

  • Clear and compelling narrative
  • Structured enquiries which explore the core content and issues of each period
  • ‘Insight’ panels between enquiries to provide context, overview and extension

The Wars of the Roses Textbook


Enquiring History will:

  • Encourage enquiry, and a keener understanding of the periods and people of the past
  • Motivate and engage readers by challenging them to think further about the subject
  • Prepare your A level students for university by encouraging them to think for themselves and so gain independence as learners
  The Wars of the Roses
Ian Dawson
ISBN: 9781444144482		  
  The Wars of the Roses covers the political history of England from
1450-1485. The content is gathered into ten discrete enquiries which together help examine the fundamental paradox of this period: People at the time did not want civil war, and for the nobles loyalty to the monarch was all important...yet wars happened and kings were deposed.

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  The Russian Revolution
Chris Culpin
ISBN: 9781444144567		  
  The Russian Revolution examines Russian history from 1894-1924 - the stories, settings, characters and issues that make this such an extraordinarily important and popular topic. The enquiries have an obvious focus on causes but also on interpretations. Each new generation of historians has interpreted these events through their own lenses - their own time, place and political standpoint - making this topic one of the most powerful for understanding how history is written and how interpretations are formed.  



 

  The Crusades
Jamie Byrom and Michael Riley
ISBN: 9781444144512		  
  There has never been a more important time to study the Crusades. Religious conflict is a fact of life in the twenty-first century no less than it was in the medieval world. And yet the world of the Crusades is so different from ours that it takes a massive leap of imagination to make sense of these events. This book takes on that challenge: opening a window onto the 12th and 13th century worlds to understand what on earth was going on. It examines the Crusades themselves; the controversies surrounding them; and the past and current re-interpretations of the period.   





 



  The French Revolution
Dave Martin
ISBN: 9781444144543		  
  The French Revolution covers the turbulent history of France from 1774 to 1802 and the revolutionary events and larger than life individuals whose ideas and actions sent shock waves around Europe. Each enquiry tackles a discrete topic which together build a rounded and balanced picture of the causes, the course, the consequences, and the historiography of the revolution. As William Doyle puts it: 'There are few periods in history when so many benevolent intentions led to such unintended chaos and desturuction...' How and why did this happen? What can we learn from it? What has the French Revolution got to say to us today?  




 


 



  British Society since 1945
Diana Laffin
ISBN: 9781444144529		  
  Britain since 1945 examines the key social developments in post war Britain from 1945-1990 and places them in their political context. It examines how changes in the media, and in the lives of women, young people, and immigrants worked together to transform Britain. These are both fascinating yet alien topics for today's A Level students - old but not quite yet 'history' - potent and controversial, but only dimly understood. This book sets out to shine a truly historical light on each topic using the vast array of powerful evidence. And underlying it all to address the key question: Has Britain become a more divided society than it was in 1945? Or is that just a myth fuelled by nostalgia?  







 



  Nazi Germany 1933-45
Christopher Culpin & Steven J Mastin
ISBN: 9781444178777		  
  The OFSTED report on school history suggests that the current generation of A Level students have been poorly served by exam-based textbooks which spoon-feed students while failing to enthuse them or develop deeper understandings of studying History. The Schools History Project has risen to this challenge with a new series for the next generation.