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AS-Level
History (4 periods per week)
Part 1: Votes
for Women, Women's Suffrage in England c1880-1918
Early women's
suffrage movement, c880-1903
The Pankhursts and
the WSPU
Reactions to the
suffrage campaign
The Impact of World
War 1 and the Representation of the People Act, 1918
Part 2: Promise
and Performance: FDR and the New Deal, 1933-45
The agenda for
change
Policies to deal
with agriculture, industry, unemployment and welfare
Opposition in the
USA to the New Deal
The recovery and
success of the New Deal to 1945
Part 3: Pursuing
Life and Liberty: Civil Rights in the USA, 1945-68
The social and
economic position of black citizens in the USA in the 1940's
and 1950's.
The nature and
extend of discrimination and segregation
Martin Luther King
and peaceful protest
Black power and the
use of violence
The extent to which
civil rights has been achieved by 1968
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At
Queen's College History is taught at the Junior School level
as a part of the B.J.C. Social Studies curriculum in
conjunction with Geography and the civics component of Social
Studies. At the Senior School level History is offered as the
compulsory Humanities option along with Geography. Students
are prepared to sit the BGCSE History examination at Grade 11
and sit the AS-level examination at Grade 12. The History
Department seeks to stimulate students' interest and
enthusiasm for the study of the past while developing skills
of abstraction, analysis, evaluation, and communication in
history. 