Paper 1 - The Tudors, 1485–1603
This option allows students to study in breadth issues of change, continuity, cause and consequence in this period through the following key questions:
- How effectively did the Tudors restore and develop the powers of the monarchy?
- How did relations with foreign powers change and how was the succession secured?
- How did English society and economy change and with what effects?
- How far did intellectual and religious ideas change and develop and with what effects?
- How important was the role of key individuals and groups?
Paper 2 – Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917– 1953.
This option provides for the study in depth of the coming and practice of communism in Russia.
It explores concepts such as:
- Marxism.
- Communism.
- Leninism and Stalinism.
- Ideological control and dictatorship.
The NEA – Indian Partition, the creation of Pakistan and the role of the British Empire. This is a 100-year study investigating the reasons for the end of British Rule in India and the rise of nationalism. The end of the British Empire in India in August 1947 resulted in the creation of two separate states of India and Pakistan. This event was to result in the biggest mass migration in history. Over 18 million people migrated to join their particular religious majority. At least a million people died in communal violence in the process. This coursework will look at the origins of the issues and attempt to analyse the reasons for it using contemporary and historians’ sources.
