History Common Entrance Syllabus to 13/ corresponds to KS3 11-13 (14)
The CE 13 syllabus is divided into three time periods covering the period 1066- 1914
Medieval Realms: Britain 1066-1485
The Making of the United Kingdom: 1485-1750
Britain and Empire: 1750-1914
Medieval Realms: Britain 1066-1485
War and Rebellion 1066
Matilda and Stephen; Edward 1 – Scotland and Wales; Edward II and Scotland
Edward III and the Black Prince; Henry V; Henry VI and Joan of Arc; Wars of the Roses up to Bosworth; Richard III; Henry VII King John??
Government and Parliament
establishing royal control; baronial revolts; Peasants’ Revolt; development of Parliament
Religion
role and importance of monasteries and nunneries; crusades; struggle between King and Church; Archbishop Becket; role of Church in secular life
Social History
Black Death (1348-1350); town and village life
General Topics
castles and cathedrals; art and literature
The Making of the United Kingdom: 1485-1750
War and Rebellion
Henry VII; End of the Wars of the Roses (Bosworth & Stoke); Pilgrimage of Grace; Kett’s and Prayer Book Rebellions; Jane Grey and Wyatt’s Rebellion; Northern Revolt 1569 / Mary, Queen of Scots; War with Spain and in Ireland 1585-1603; Causes of the English Civil War (1629-1642); Civil Wars; Monmouth’s Rebellion 1685 and Glorious Revolution 1688; Jacobite Risings 1715 and 1745; Walpole as Prime Minister; Glorious Revolution
Government and Parliament
Thomas Wolsey; Thomas Cromwell; Mary I; William Cecil; Elizabethan settlement; Elizabeth and her Parliaments; Elizabeth and Mary Stuart; Crown and Parliament 1603-1642; Cromwell’s rule; Crown and Parliament 1660-1688; Union with Scotland and effects; John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough??when
Religion
state of Church Pre-reformation; Henrician Reformation; Edwardian Church and Marian Reaction; Puritans and Catholics; Laudian Church; Puritans before and during Civil War; John Bunyan and non-conformism
Social History
enclosure and reform efforts in C16th; wool trade in C16th; life at court; Elizabethan Poor Law; Plague and Fire of London (1665-1666); urban and rural life in C16/ C17/C18
General Topics
overseas trade in C16th, C17th or early C18th; European events affecting England; artists and writers; scientists; exploration and settlement
Britain and Empire: 1750-1914
War and Rebellion
Seven Years’ War; Causes of the American War of Independence (1763-1776); American War of Independence; French Revolution; Napoleonic Wars; Crimea; Indian Mutiny; Boer War; important military leaders
Government and Parliament
reform acts; political movements; political thinkers; important prime ministers Great Power rivalries 1871-1914
Religion
attitudes towards Catholicism; Cardinal Newman and the Oxford Movement; Evangelical Movement; Methodism
Social and Economic History
Agricultural Revolution; Transport Revolution; Industrial Revolution; law and order; working-class movements; social reforms and reformers; Public Health; colonisation and the scramble for Africa; Slavery; Ireland
General Topics
Great Exhibition; development of the Empire; inventors/ leading figures in the revolutions scientists; artists and writers
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