History

Course summary

History is one of the central humanities, embracing the study and understanding of all aspects of past human experience: individual and collective; political, social, cultural, economic and religious; the public and the domestic; the material and the intellectual; the sacred and the profane. The sources, primary and secondary, range from the written word and statistical data to the visual arts. Beyond intrinsic academic interest, History provides training in critical analysis, literary expression and the evaluation of widely contrasting evidence. This is a rigorous and demanding A-level, but also an extremely rewarding one.