Summary:
The series: SHP Smarter History is the new approach to GCSE from the Schools History Project. It offers interesting lessons and comprehensive content plus step by step coaching in exam skills – using SHP’s Exam Buster approach. This is the best of both worlds from the experts who know what good teaching is about and also know what the SHP specifications are all about.


Edexcel Protest, Law and Order in the Twentieth Century is an authoritative new book from the Schools History Project for Edexcel's Unit 3 Source Enquiry examining the reasons for and response to four examples of political and economic protest through the twentieth century: the Suffragettes; the General Strike of 1926; the Miners's strike of 1984; the Poll Tax protest of 1990. It covers the relevant requirements of the Edexcel specification but delivers them in the context of a motivating, enquiry-led approach to ensure that your courses are interesting and motivating to teach yet still deliver good results for your students.

At every relevant stage through the book 'ExamBuster' features ('Meet the Examiner' and 'Smarter Revision') help blend exam preparation with historical learning so that by the end of the course students understand not only the period and its issues but also how they will be expected to think and write about this for the examination.

Key features of Smarter History
- varied pace and style of learning which is essential to keep your students motivated over a long period.

• Source enquiry from the experts: SHP are the acknowledged experts in source-based enquiry
• A flexible approach: unlike Edexcel's own publishing SHP have by popular demand made each source enquiry available as a separate publication so centres can combine any source enquiry with any development study
• Motivating teaching and learning: well-planned tasks and fascinating issues ensure that students will be engaged in real historical enquiry and not just drilled for an exam.
• Thorough exam preparation:'Smarter Revision' helps students to build their understanding of a topic step by step; 'Meet the examiner' unpacks examination questions and shows how students can improve their answers
• SHP support the teaching of the SHP specifications through regular INSET and training events including a National Conference open to all

Table of Contents:
Introduction:
Enquiry – the skill that makes History really useful!
What does it mean to protest?
Overview: 20th century protests: Why did they happen and how did the government respond?
Big picture of protest in the twentieth century
Exam Busters: What is the Source Enquiry
Case-study 1: The Suffragettes 1903-1914
Exam Busters: Answering inference questions
Case study 2: The General Strike 1926
Exam Busters: Cross referencing between sources
Case study 3: The Miners Strike 1984
Exam Busters: evaluating the usefulness of sources
Case study 4: The Poll Tax protest 1990
Exam Busters: Using sources to reach (and support) a judgement
Which factor was the biggest influence on twentieth century protests?
Exam Busters: Putting it all together - writing conclusions

About the Author(s):
Michael Riley is Director of the Schools History Project as well as History Advisor for Somerset. In 2010 he will be conducting a number of INSET events around the country on promoting independent enquiry in Key Stage 3 History.