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History A Level Preparation Crompton

Paper 1: Breadth Study Challenge and Transformation: Britain, c1851-1964 Paper 2: Depth Study The Sun : Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643-1715 NEA: Historical Investigation The African American in the USA, c1864-1964

Challenge and Transformation: Britain, c1851-1964

Key Text: Fortune, Ailsa; Challenge & Transformation: Britain, c1851-1964, Oxford University Press Reading: list is endless but some suggestions! Roberts, M; Britain, 1914-200: The Challenge of Change, Oxford University Press Pugh, Martin; Britain since 1789, Macmillan Willis, Michael; Democracy and the State, 1830-1945, Cambridge University Press Useful Articles: History Today Websites: http://www.historyhome.co.uk/ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/ https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/

Documentaries: Gladstone and Disraeli: Clash of the Titans Andrew Marr The Making of Modern Britain Lots of programmes/ films to gain a sense of the period, e.g. Downton Abbey, The Crown, Darkest Hour.

The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643-1715

Key Text: Wilkinson, Richard; Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1661-1715, Access to History Reading: Mansel, Philip; King of the World, The Life of Louis XIV, Allen Lane Wilkinson, Josephine; Louis XIV, The Real King of Versailles, Amberley Shennan, J.H., Louis XIV, Lancaster Pamphlets

Websites/ Documentaries: BBC: The Real Versailles Crash Course: Absolute Monarchy Louis XIV and Versailles 3D tour Versailles Party like 1660: Louis XIV NEA: Historical Investigation The African American Civil Rights Movement This is a personal study and should take the form of a question in the context of approximately 100 years. The focus of your personal study will be the African American Civil Rights Movement form 1860s-1960s. Your research would usually be completed toward the end of Year 12 but it is never too soon to get started! The following are just a handful of links to the resources available!

Documentaries: . A documentary series charting the Montgomery to Memphis timeline. Episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuH_VnCxspI (Emmett Till, Montgomery) Episode 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGaebTvdN3w (Little Rock and Brown) Episode 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eGDqyr-Xro (Student sit-ins, Freedom Rides) Episode 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suP5lLiOlEY (Freedom rides, marches) Episode 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP2A6_2b6g8 (Violence, voting, Civil Rights Act) Episode 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQT7S8fuzGc (Selma) Episode 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W66UigXVoO8 (Malcolm X) Episode 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh3yG6SFzVo (Chicago Freedom Movement, Detroit Riots) Episode 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ktcv6BOL38 (Black Panther Party) Episode 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlhPBCbKPkI (MLK’s final years) Episode 11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WmVeDSZ8T8 (Muhammad Ali, black student movements)

Other documentaries The Murder of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-X4is9jMYk The Great Migration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCrR6ltEep4 Many Rivers to Cross Episode 3 1863-1896 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdu7BigeEZ0 Many Rivers to Cross Episode 4 1890-1940 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIOH8QvaLSQ Many Rivers to Cross Episode 5 1940-1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN1dxdmeaTI

A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b07x2zd2 Music and US Civil Rights: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03js7l7 : Quiet Revolutionary: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rsfm7 My road trips with Martin Luther King: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswlmp Martin Luther King, Poets and Political Protest: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09dy165 Elizabeth Eckford and the : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvpss Ida B Wells: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dm9d2 The Murder of Emmett Till: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csywxt : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ks223 And : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ks221

Films Selma (2014) Mississippi Burning (1988) Red tails (2012) (1992) Freedom on my mind (1992) Research Tasks: NEA

1 Civil Watch the following Documentary about slavery and the outbreak of the Civil War (America the Rights: Story of the US Episode 4 – Division) and answer the 12 questions below: Civil War https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwhtzm

1. What is the major economic difference between the North and the South? 2. Why was the Cotton Gin so important? 3. Why is slavery critical to the economy of the South? 4. Why did slavery expand West? 5. Who is ? 6. Who is Harriet Tubman? 7. How does the new Fugitive Slave Law take slavery to the North? 8. Why does it cause increasing tensions between the North and South? 9. What happens in Kansas? Why is slavery the root cause of conflict? 10. What does Abraham Lincoln think of slavery? 11. Why does the election of Lincoln push the country towards Civil War? 12. What does Lincoln do to avoid a war with the South?

2 Civil ● Create a timeline of the key Presidents between 1865 and 1965: Abraham Lincoln to Rights: Lyndon B. Johnson Presidents ● Create a fact file for each President - focus only policies and laws that relate to African Americans and race relations. https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-presidents-timeline https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/civil-rights-movement-timeline https://www.preceden.com/timelines/310201-civil-rights---presidents

3 Civil Try to use a form of historical fiction to learn about Jim Crow segregation in America from the Rights: 1920s - 1960s. There are suggestions below, but also links to websites/documentaries if you Jim Crow prefer. Films: The Help; ; ; Selma Books: Lee, H. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’; Stockett, K. ‘The Help’; Walker, A. ‘The Colour Purple’ Documentaries/websites: Eyes on the Prize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts10IVzUDVw https://www.britannica.com/event/Jim-Crow-law

4 Civil Find out about some of the key people and key events of the Civil Rights Movement 1950s- Rights 1960s. Create fact files on the following people/events: ● Martin Luther King Jr ● Malcolm X ● The Black Panthers ● ● The murder of Emmett Till ● The ● The Little Rock 9 ● Freedom Rides ● The on Washington https://www.britannica.com/list/timeline-of-the-american-civil-rights-movement