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Edexcel GCSE History
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c1000–c1500: Crime and Punishment in Medieval England
c1500–c1700: Crime and Punishment in Early Modern England
c1700-c1900: Crime and Punishment in 18th- and 19th- century Britain
Crime and Punishment in Modern Britain
Part One: c1250–c1500: Medicine in medieval England
Part Two: c1500–c1700: The Medical Renaissance in England
Part Three: c1700-c1900: Medicine in 18th- and 19th- century Britain
Part Four: Modern Medicine in Britain
c1250-c1500: Medieval warfare and English society
c1500-c1700: Warfare and English society in the early modern period
c.1700-c.1900:Warfare and British society in the 18th and 19th centuries
c1900 - present: Warfare and British society in the modern era
c800-c1500: Migration in medieval England
c1500-c1700: Migration in early modern England
Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest, 1060–66
William I in power: securing the kingdom, 1066–87
Norman England, 1066–88
Life and government in England, 1189-1216
Involvements overseas, 1189-1204
King John’s Downfall
Henry VIII and Wolsey, 1509–29
Henry VIII and Cromwell, 1529–40
The Reformation and its impact, 1529–40
Queen, government and religion, 1558–69
Challenges to Elizabeth at home and abroad, 1569–88
Elizabethan society in the Age of Exploration, 1558–88
Spain reaches the Americas, c1490-1512
The conquistadors, c1513-c1528
The Spanish Empire, c1528-c1555
British settlement in North America, 1713-41
A disrupted society, 1742-64
The loss of an empire, 1765-83
The early settlement of the West, c1835 - c1862
Development of the Plains, c1862 - c1876
Later developments in the West, c1876 - c1895
The origins of the Cold War, 1941-58
Cold War crises, 1958-70
The end of the Cold War, 1970-91
The birth of the state of Israel, 1945-63
The escalating conflict, 1964-73
Attempts at a solution, 1974-95
The revolutions of 1917
The Bolsheviks in power, 1917-24
Stalin’s rise to power and dictatorship, 1924-41
Economic and social changes, 1924-41
The Weimar Republic, 1918–29
Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919-39
Nazi Control and Dictatorship
Life in Nazi Germany, 1933 - 1939
Establishing communist rule, 1945–59
Economic policy, 1949–65
The Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, 1966–76
Life in Mao’s China, 1949–76
The development of the civil rights movement, 1954–60
Protest, progress and radicalism, 1960–75
US involvement in the Vietnam War, 1954–75
Reactions to, and the end of, US involvement in Vietnam, 1964–75
The USA, 1954–75: conflict at home and abroad
Medicine in Britain, c1250–present
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