Year 7

Autumn term:

• Introductory unit: ‘What is history?’
• The Norman Conquest of 1066

Spring term:

• Medieval Religion
• The murder of Thomas Becket

Summer term:

• Life in a Medieval village
• The Renaissance

 

Year 8

Autumn term:

• The Tudors
• The Stuarts

Spring term:

• Pre-colonial Africa
• The transatlantic slave trade

Summer term:

• The French Revolution

 

Year 9

Autumn term:

• The Industrial Revolution
• Democracy in the nineteenth century, including the women’s suffrage movement

Spring term:

• The British Home Front
• The origins of WWII

Summer term:

• The Holocaust
• The post war era and the Civil Rights Movement in America