History
For History A Level, the first two units focus on the Early Tudors, 1485-1558 and Russia, 1894-1941. Please see below for prep work for both units.
Early Tudors, 1485-1558
1. Create factfiles for the following key people who appear on the course. Factfiles should cover dates of birth/death, family background, key events in life, reasons they were significant.
- Henry VII
- Henry VIII
- Edward VI
- Mary I
Extension:
- Thomas Wolsey
- Thomas Cromwell
- Catherine of Aragon
- Anne Boleyn
2. Online materials for the course can be found on Seneca. This will also be useful for the factfiles:
https://app.senecalearning.com/classroom/course/10d1e681-6172-440a-a92b-681eb4f1af52
Tudors Recommended Reading
'Dip into' any of the titles below for contextual reading (a couple available online for free, others can be purchased second hand fairly cheaply - no pressure to do this at all though - the free online resources will be more than enough).
- OCR A Level History: England 1485–1603, Fellows & Dicken
- The Tudor Century, Dawson
- England under the Tudors, Elton can be accessed online here https://archive.org/details/englandundertudo00elto
- Power in Tudor England, Loades
- The Tudor Years, Lotherington
- Tudor England, O’Sullivan & Lockyer
- The Tudors, Rex can be accessed online here https://archive.org/details/tudors0000rexr
Another useful text which can be accessed online is Meyer, accessed here https://archive.org/details/tudorscompletest00meye
Russia, 1894-1941
- Russia in 1894
Read through Orlando Figes’ website(one of the most well-known historians in this field): http://www.orlandofiges.info/
Sections 1-13 cover our course and provide plenty of back ground reading.
Use this information to create factfiles for the following people who are very significant in the course.
- Tsar Nicholas II
- Vladimir Lenin
- Joseph Stalin