Welcome

Fellow heathen historians.

Welcome to the new heathen history site. This news feed will host all the general A level history news, and materials. We hope that this will build up to be a collection of enriching materials that will reflect the broad and diasporait nature of the discipline. Below is a good example of this.

In November 2012 BBC Radio 3 ran a series of fifteen minute lectures from young academics in the humanities and the arts. Here Jonathan Healey gives a talk questioning the value of learning lessons from history. He argues ”that lessons drawn from the past and applied to our own world are meaningless, despite what we are told by best-selling historians and television documentaries. It is precisely because the past is so foreign that we are able to understand what is so unique about today.” Have a listen and see what you think.

Mr Kydd.

Please find here the department’s 5Rs document (Research, Reflect, Review, Read around, and Respond to feedback). It sets out what A level students should expect from us, and what we expect from you. The diagrams below shows the skills that we want you to develop and some of the reasons why historians disagree…

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The essay planning sheet master can be found here
A* students share their revision secrets here
A historian’s five top tips for better writing can be found here
Writing advice from the University of Reading can be found here
Why study history at university ? Outcomes
The Times – UK  rankings for history – 2022
Complete university guide UK rankings for politics – 2023
Uniguide – studying history at University – a guide
Sutton Trust summer schools
Uni taster days website
Open Days.com
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