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 The transformation of Surgery c1845-1918 is an authoritative new book from the Schools History Project for Edexcel's Unit 3 Source Enquiry examining how and why surgery changed in the later 19th century (how the triple problems of pain, infection and bleeding were overcome). 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!
1 The Transformation of surgery – what actually happened between 1845 and 1918?
Overview and building your hypothesis
Exam Busters: The Source Enquiry
2 What was surgery like in the early 1800s?
Exam Busters: Answering inference questions
3 Breakthrough 1: Anaesthetics
Exam Busters: Cross referencing between sources
Smarter Revision: ‘Breakthrough’ chart
4 Breakthrough 2: Antiseptics
Exam Busters: evaluating the usefulness of sources
5 Breakthrough 3: Blood transfusion
6 Which factors played the biggest part in the transformation of surgery?
Exam Busters: Using sources to reach (and support) a judgement
Exam Busters: Writing an effective conclusion

About the Author(s):
Ian Dawson is Publications Director of the Schools History Project and creator of the website thinkinghistory.co.uk which is pioneering work on active learning in History. He is an experienced and influental author on both the History of Medicine and on Historical enquiry in schools.

Dale Banham is Humanities adviser in Suffolk and the pioneer of SHP's Exam Busters approach

Dan Lyndon is an experienced teacher of Edexcel's Medicine specification.