Exam Board: AQA
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016

AQA approved

Enhance and expand your students' knowledge and understanding of their AQA breadth study through expert narrative, progressive skills development and bespoke essays from leading historians on key debates.

- Builds students' understanding of the events and issues of the period with authoritative, well-researched narrative that covers the specification content

- Introduces the key concepts of change, continuity, cause and consequence, encouraging students to make comparisons across time as they advance through the course

- Improves students' skills in tackling interpretation questions and essay writing by providing clear guidance and practice activities

- Boosts students' interpretative skills and interest in history through extended reading opportunities consisting of specially commissioned essays from practising historians on relevant debates

- Cements understanding of the broad issues underpinning the period with overviews of the key questions, end-of-chapter summaries and diagrams that double up as handy revision aids

Democracy, Empire and War: Britain 1851-1964

This title explores political and social reform 1851-1914, the impact of both World Wars, the creation of the Welfare State and the transformational social changes of the 1950s and 1960s. It considers breadth issues of change, continuity, cause and consequence in this period through examining key questions on themes such as democracy, ideology, economy, society, Britain's' position in the world and the impact of key individuals.

This book has been graded for interest at 16+ years.

There are 288 pages in this book. This is a study guide book. This book was published 2015 by Hodder & Stoughton General Division .

Nick Shepley is a teacher, writer and the creator of the Explaining History series of ebooks and website. He worked as a history head of department and now divides his time between history writing and work for the Holocaust Education Trust. Mike Byrne is an experienced examiner and author of A Level History books.