Welcome to the History department
There are many different reasons to study history:
- History helps you develop the skills to look beyond the headlines, to ask questions properly, and to express your own opinions.
- History helps you make sense of most other subjects and topics.
- History helps you understand the origins of modern political and social problems.
- History lets you learn how and why people behaved as they did, whether they are Robert the Bruce, Hitler or Martin L King...
- History provides you with the skills employers are looking for, as well as career such as teaching, law, publishing, tourism and the Civil Service.
S1
What is History?
The Romans
The Scottish Wars of Independence
S2
The Assassination of JFK
The Reformation/Mary Queen of Scots
S3-4
Native Americans
Scotland and the Great War
Britain and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Hitler and Nazi Germany
Higher
The Treaty of Union, 1689-1740
Britain 1851-1951 OR Britain and Ireland 1900-1985
USA 1918-68
Advanced Higher
Germany form Democracy to Dictatorship, 1918-39