S3 History

Module 3.1– The Great War 1914-18

Causes of the First World War; international tensions; naval rivalry; the Sarajevo assassination; should Britain have joined the war?

Module 3.2 – The Great War 1914-18

The course of the First World War particularly the technological race to break the stalemate; experiences of trench warfare and the main battles seen through literary sources and personal memoirs including several from College families; poets of the Great War

Module 3.3 - The Great War 1914-18

The home front as experienced by women; Government controls extended; food supplies and rationing

Module 3.4 - The Great War 1914-18

The consequences of the war; the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations

Module 3.5 - Russia 1905-1941

Bloody Sunday and the 1905 revolution; Stolypin`s reforms; the Romanovs and Rasputin; the First World War

Module 3.6 - Russia 1905-1941

The Revolutions of 1917; the Bolshevik government; Lenin and Stalin

S4 History

Module 4.1– Britain 1815-1930

The reforms of the liberal Tories - prisons, police, penal code, trade; 1820 Scottish Rising; the Great Reform Act; Chartism, especially Scottish Chartism, and the development of democracy

Module 4.2 – Britain 1815-1930

Changes in industry - coal and railways; population, health and living conditions; the Great Exhibition; maritime strength and empire; women`s suffrage