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Medicine in Britain, c1250-present
Medicine in Britain, c1250-c1500: Ideas About the Cause and Treatment of DiseaseGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Medicine in Britain, c1700-c1900: Vaccination, Germ Theory and Public HealthGrades 4-8 (GCSE)Medicine in Britain, c1500-c1700: The Medical Renaissance and Ideas About the Cause of DiseaseGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Medicine in Britain, c1500-c1700: Treatment, Prevention and the Great Plague of 1665Grades 4-7 (GCSE)Medicine in Britain, c1900-present: War, Science and the Development of PenicillinGrades 4-8 (GCSE)Medicine in Britain, c1900-present: The NHS, Genetics and Modern Public HealthGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Medicine in Britain, c1250-present: Change and Continuity in Ideas About the Cause of DiseaseGrades 5-9 (GCSE)Medicine in Britain, c1250-present: Change and Continuity in the Treatment and Prevention of DiseaseGrades 5-9 (GCSE)The Black Death, 1348-49: Causes, Spread and Contemporary ResponsesGrades 4-7 (GCSE)The Cholera Epidemic of 1854 and John Snow's Broad Street InvestigationGrades 4-8 (GCSE)The Role of Individuals in Driving Medical Change, c1250-PresentGrades 5-9 (GCSE)The Role of Attitudes in Society in Medical Change, c1250-PresentGrades 5-9 (GCSE)The Role of Government and Legislation in Medical Change, c1250-1900Grades 5-9 (GCSE)Anaesthetics and Antiseptics: Simpson, Lister and Safer SurgeryGrades 4-8 (GCSE)The Role of Religion in Shaping Medical Ideas and Practice, c1250-1700Grades 4-8 (GCSE)The Role of Science, Technology and Communication in Medical ChangeGrades 5-9 (GCSE)
The Western Front, 1914-18
The Western Front, 1914-16: Trench Warfare, Wounds and the Chain of EvacuationGrades 4-7 (GCSE)The Western Front, 1914-18: Trench Systems and the Terrain of the British SectorGrades 4-7 (GCSE)The Western Front, 1916-17: The Somme and Passchendaele as Medical ContextGrades 4-8 (GCSE)The Western Front, 1914-18: Wounds and Their TreatmentGrades 4-7 (GCSE)The Western Front, 1914-18: The RAMC, FANY and the Personnel of the Chain of EvacuationGrades 4-7 (GCSE)The Western Front, 1914-18: Advances in Surgery and Blood TransfusionGrades 4-8 (GCSE)The Western Front, 1914-18: Historical Enquiry Skills and the Historic EnvironmentGrades 5-8 (GCSE)Trench Foot, Trench Fever and Frostbite: Illness on the Western FrontGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Gas Attacks and Their Medical Treatment: Chlorine, Phosgene and Mustard GasGrades 4-7 (GCSE)
Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88
Early Elizabethan England, 1569-1587: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Revolt of the Northern EarlsGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Early Elizabethan England, 1558-1559: Elizabeth's Succession and CharacterGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Early Elizabethan England, 1559: The Religious SettlementGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Early Elizabethan England, 1559-85: The Catholic and Puritan ChallengesGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Early Elizabethan England, 1568-88: Relations with Spain and the ArmadaGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88: Elizabethan Society and the Problem of the PoorGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88: Elizabethan Society and the Voyages of ExplorationGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Elizabethan Government in 1558: Court, Privy Council and the Problems Elizabeth InheritedGrades 4-7 (GCSE)The Ridolfi, Throckmorton and Babington Plots, 1571-86Grades 4-7 (GCSE)The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1587Grades 4-7 (GCSE)Elizabethan Education: The Home, Petty Schools and Grammar SchoolsGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Elizabethan Leisure and the Growth of TheatreGrades 4-7 (GCSE)
Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91
Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91: The Grand Alliance and the Wartime Conferences, 1941-45Grades 4-7 (GCSE)Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91: Growing Rivalry and the Berlin Blockade, 1945-58Grades 4-7 (GCSE)Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91: The Berlin Crisis and the Building of the Berlin Wall, 1958-61Grades 4-7 (GCSE)Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962Grades 4-7 (GCSE)Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91: Czechoslovakia and the Prague Spring, 1968Grades 4-7 (GCSE)Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91: Detente, Afghanistan and the End of the Cold War, 1970-91Grades 4-7 (GCSE)Detente and Arms Control: SALT I and the Helsinki Agreement, 1969-75Grades 4-7 (GCSE)The Collapse of Detente: SALT II and the Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979Grades 4-7 (GCSE)Effects of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan on Superpower RelationsGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Gorbachev's New Thinking: Glasnost, Perestroika and Reform in the USSRGrades 4-7 (GCSE)The Reagan-Gorbachev Summits and the INF Treaty, 1985-87Grades 4-7 (GCSE)The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the End of the Cold War, 1989-91Grades 4-7 (GCSE)
Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39
Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1929-1934: The Nazi Rise to Power and the Creation of the DictatorshipGrades 5-9 (GCSE)Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-1923: The Origins of the Republic and Early CrisesGrades 4-8 (GCSE)Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1924-1929: The Recovery of the RepublicGrades 5-9 (GCSE)Nazi Germany, 1933-1939: The Police StateGrades 5-9 (GCSE)Nazi Germany, 1933-1939: Propaganda, Censorship and the ChurchesGrades 4-8 (GCSE)Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939: Women and Young PeopleGrades 4-8 (GCSE)Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939: Employment, Living Standards and the Persecution of MinoritiesGrades 4-8 (GCSE)Formation of the Nazi Party and Hitler's Rise to Leadership, 1919-1921Grades 4-7 (GCSE)The 25-Point Programme and Early Nazi Ideology, 1920Grades 4-7 (GCSE)The Sturmabteilung and Nazi Party Organisation, 1921-1923Grades 4-7 (GCSE)The Events and Failure of the Munich Putsch, November 1923Grades 4-7 (GCSE)Hitler's Trial, Imprisonment and Mein Kampf, 1924Grades 4-7 (GCSE)Nazi Party Reorganisation in the Lean Years, 1925-1928Grades 4-8 (GCSE)Reasons for Limited Nazi Support, 1924-1928Grades 5-9 (GCSE)
The American West, c1835-c1895
The American West, c1835-c1895: The Plains Indians' Way of LifeGrades 4-7 (GCSE)The American West, c1835-c1895: Migration and Early SettlementGrades 4-7 (GCSE)The American West, c1835-c1895: Conflict and Tension, c1835-1854Grades 4-7 (GCSE)The American West, c1835-c1895: Development of Settlement, Ranching and the Cattle IndustryGrades 4-7 (GCSE)The American West, c1835-c1895: Changes to the Plains Indians' Way of Life, c1862-1868Grades 4-7 (GCSE)The American West, c1835-c1895: Conflicts and Conquest of the Later Period, 1876-1895Grades 4-7 (GCSE)Exam Skills: Explaining Consequences in the American WestGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Exam Skills: Writing Analytical Narrative Accounts of the American WestGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Exam Skills: The 16-Mark 'Explain Two of the Following' Importance QuestionGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Comparing the Effectiveness of Federal Policies Towards the Plains IndiansGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Explaining Success and Failure in Settlement of the Great PlainsGrades 4-7 (GCSE)Identifying and Explaining Turning Points in the American WestGrades 4-7 (GCSE)
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