What A Levels did you do?

What A Levels did you study?


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Also they STILL USE A.J.P. Turner as a go to historian to source.

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I think I did the rise of the USSR and Maggie vs the miners. Was I radicalised in the classroom? Who can say.
God I find Russian history tough. Mostly because the names, beyond Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Cathy the Great and Rasputin are so alien.
 
I think I would enjoy history more now than I did in school. I really liked European history but struggled with writing essays. Maybe I should find a good history podcast
 
I think I would enjoy history more now than I did in school. I really liked European history but struggled with writing essays. Maybe I should find a good history podcast
I have many, one moment
 
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GCSE History really lit an interest in me as we covered Nazi Germany, Communist regimes amongst other things. Queen Anne at A level didn’t quite cut it.
 
Higher History was a SNOOZE. We studied UK electoral reform in the 1800s, and the Russian revolution (with what felt like about 3 months covering the assassination of Stolypin).
 
You couldn't do a general studies A level at my school.

I was the last year before GCSEs were introduced, and you couldn't even do general studies at O level. It was for the children in the CSE stream only.
 
I missed out on my A* in A Level history because I flopped at Irish history and they were looking at RANGE and BREATH rather than total score apparently. Even though I scored higher overall than A* Paddy. :( not bitter x

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History is an odd one though. I cared about the fun stuff but a lot of people clearly cared about the subject more and I got by on being good at writing. It really showed at uni when I couldn't make up historiography in my essays any more.
 

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