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What can we learn from the 2019 AQA A Level History examiner reports?

November 15, 2019March 26, 2020Oxford History Team 1 Comment
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AQA has released its examiner reports for the 2019 AQA A Level History exams. Overall students are generally performing well. We have summarised the key issues that the examiners found students needed to improve, and collated some free content that addresses these issues to help your students avoid these mistakes in the future and give […]

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How should students evaluate historians’ arguments?

September 9, 2019March 27, 2020Oxford History Team

Reading the works of professional historians is one of the most rewarding ways of broadening students’ thinking about History. However, this can be a problematic undertaking! Historians will often present differing views on the same topic, leaving the reader bewildered as to what to believe. Nevertheless, thinking about seemingly differing arguments can be an enriching […]

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What can we learn from the AQA A Level History examiner reports 2018?

November 14, 2018May 8, 2019Oxford History Team

AQA has released its examiner reports for the AQA A Level History exams which took place in the summer. The reports overall have been really positive, with students generally performing well. We have summarized the key issues that the examiners found students needed to improve, and collated some free content that address these issues to […]

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Why is the anniversary of Tsar Nicholas II’s death a time for reflection?

July 16, 2018July 16, 2018Oxford History Team

17 July 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the murder of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family in a cellar in Ekaterinburg in the Urals. This centenary provides an opportunity to review the circumstances which led to the Tsar’s tragic end and to reflect on the importance of the event for the course […]

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Reflections on the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War protests and the 50th anniversary of LBJ’s resignation

March 27, 2018March 27, 2018Oxford History Team

The release of Kathryn Bigelow’s movie Detroit in August 2017, which tells the story of major race riots in 1967 in USA, has recently re-awakened my own memories of the turmoil of the struggle for American civil rights which I was privileged to observe at first hand. I lived in the United States for a […]

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500th anniversary of the Reformation

October 20, 2017February 8, 2018Oxford History Team

The Reformation is of great significance in British and European history and is a topic that students will likely come across multiple times during their study of History. This year marks 500 years since the start of the Reformation with the publication of Martin Luther’s ‘95 Theses’ in 1517. Martin Luther’s attack on the Church […]

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