This book covers The Making of the United Kingdom period of the Common Entrance syllabus. The narrative retelling of key events encourages a clear understanding of what happened when and why, while source based exercises and Common Entrance style essay questions will challenge pupils of all abilities. So You Really Want To Learn History Book 2 Key Benefits: - The chronological approach will ensure that pupils develop an understanding of what happened when and why, to build a firm foundation of historical knowledge - Challenging source-based exercises throughout will ensure pupils develop important historical skills - 'How do we know' boxes encourage pupils to understand the importance of evidence

 

This is volume 2 in So You Really Want To Learn .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Hodder Education .

Nicholas Oulton was educated at Charterhouse and Oriel College, Oxford. He is passionate about Latin, as is his dog, Herodotus, who ate the first two drafts of this book.

This book has the following chapters: IntroductionChapter 1 - Henry VII, 1485-1509Chapter 2 - Henry VIII, 1509-1547Chapter 3 - Edward VI and Mary IChapter 4 - Elizabeth I, 1558-1603Chapter 5 - Life in the 16th centuryChapter 6 - James I and Charles IChapter 7 - Civil War and the republican experimentChapter 8 - Charles II and James IIChapter 9 - William and Mary, and AnneChapter 10 - George I and IIAppendices