My Revision Notes: OCR GCSE (9-1) History A: Explaining the Modern World

Aly Boniface, Catherine Priggs, Lizzy James, Martin Spafford, Harriet Salkeld

ISBN 10: 1510404058 / ISBN 13: 9781510404052

Published by Hodder Education 26/01/2018, 2018

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Synopsis:

For students taking their exams in 2020. Students taking exams in 2021 onwards should purchase the Second Edition of this title (ISBN: 9781398306400).

Exam board: OCR
Level: GCSE
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: Summer 2018

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This title covers the following options:

Period study

- International Relations: the changing international order 1918-c.2001

Non-British depth studies

- Germany 1925-1955

- The USA 1919-1948

- The USA 1945-1974

British thematic studies

- Power: Monarchy and Democracy in Britain c.1000 to 2014

- War and British Society c.790 to c.2010

- Migration to Britain c.1000 to c.2010

British depth studies

- The English Reformation c.1520-c.1550

- Personal Rule to Restoration 1629-1660

- The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688-c.1730

About the Authors:

Catherine Priggs is an education consultant who specialises in history education and whole-school leadership. She has worked as a senior leader in two schools and as director of a teaching school. Catherine has mentored for various ITT providers, led the history programme for a SCITT, and led and supported departments as a subject leader. She has contributed to Teaching History, and authors and edits history textbooks. She presents at conferences, delivers CPD for a range of providers, and
works with major UK-based and international exam boards. Catherine is a member of the Historical Association's Secondary Committee.

Martin Spafford recently retired after 23 years teaching history in East London and, before that, teaching in Central London, Egypt, South Yorkshire and Southern Africa. He is a Fellow of the Schools History Project and an Honorary Fellow of the Historical Association. With Marika Sherwood he co-authored a teaching pack on the experiences of African, Asian and Caribbean service personnel in the Second World War. For the past few years he has regularly run workshops for PGCE and MA students at the Institute of Education and is currently helping as an occasional facilitator for Facing History and Ourselves (UK) for whom he recently ran a workshop on Identity and Belonging Great Britain for Brent teachers. He is Secretary of Journey to Justice, for which he is running workshops for vulnerable children in London and Newcastle looking at the history of struggles for social justice; is on the Education Committee for the Migration Museum; and is helping organise a conference for teachers and children in Islington addressing the question 'What's History got to do with me?' He has collaborated with a wide range of organisations creating extracurricular history projects for children including History and Policy, the Bishopsgate Institute, the Raphael Samuel History Centre, On the Record, LEAP Theatre Workshop and the British Museum. Most recently he has worked closely on oral history projects with Everyday Muslim and Age Exchange, with whom he will work with older people in Germany on the impact of World War One memories on the descendants of participants. He is currently applying for funding for an oral history project tracing the impact of migration in Leyton and has had a long interest in migration history dating back to periods of community work with Latin American and Bangladeshi migrant communities. Martin's degree was in English Literature and Language and he initially worked as a teacher of English , EFL and EAL so he has a keen awareness of how young people connect with the written word. He will be the writer on our team.

Bibliographic Details

Title: My Revision Notes: OCR GCSE (9-1) History A:...
Publisher: Hodder Education 26/01/2018
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good