A Level History (Distance Learning)

Keen to study A Level History by distance learning. Are you fascinated by the past? Obsessed with World War II? Interested in how the British state has changed and progressed? Then start learning about History with an A Level from Start Learning.

The past is a critical component in understanding what is happening today. This course provides interesting and engaging insights from the last 300 years. The knowledge of the history you will gain studying for your A Level in History will enable you to critically analyse current events by comparing them to similar events in the past.

Our course is designed in bite sized sections so it is easy to learn step by step and don’t forget our Tutors are here to support you throughout your A Level in History. today!

Course Contents

AS Level

Unit 1 – HIS1A – HIS1N, Change and Consolidation
• The Reign of James I: the Establishment of the Authority, 1603-1618
• The Stuart Monarchy, 1618-1629
• The Personal Rule of Charles I, 1629-1640
• Charles and the Origins of the Civil War, 1640-1642
• The USSR and Marxism
• Stalin’s Soviet Union in the 1930s
• Fascist Ideology and Italian Fascism
• The Italian Fascist state of the 1930s
• Nazi Germany

Unit 2 – HIS2A – HIS2S, Historical Issues: Periods of Change

• The Impact of Chairman Mao: China, 1946-1976
• The Civil war, 1946-1949
• The Consolidation of Power, 1949-1953
• Economic planning and its results, 1953-1967
• The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960
• The Cultural Revolution and its aftermath 1966-76
• The effects of the Cultural Revolution
• The political framework, 1959-1964
• Leadership of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home 1959-64
• Leadership of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home 1959-64
• Growth of Mass Media
• Increase of Leisure Time
• Changes in Culture and Society
• Youth Rebellion and Radicalism
• Social changes
• The Government and modernisation of society, 1964-1975
• Greater equality for woman – early 1970s
• Education
• The beginnings of Multiculturalism

A2 Level

Unit 3 – HIS3A – HIS3N, The State and the People: Change and Continuity
• Louis XV: The ‘Well Beloved’, 1743-1764
• Louis XV, 1764-1774: The Return of Absolutism?
• Louis XVI: Pressure on absolutism – 1774-1787
• The collapse of the ancient Regime 1787-1789
• Victory and Crises: 1918-1931
• The National Government and inter-war changes, 1931 – 1939
• The impact of war and post-war reconstruction, 1939-1951
• Post War Economic Problems
• General Election of October 1951
• Conservatives and the Economy 1951-64

Unit 4 – HIS4X, Historical Enquiry