National 4 History

 National 4 and 5 History

All History courses at National 4 & 5 deal with concepts such as change, continuity, and power struggles.  Pupils will study aspects from three contexts: Scottish, British, and European & World.

Scottish Context - The Era of The Great War (1910 – 1928)

• Recruitment and Propaganda
• Trench Warfare
• Loos and the Somme
• The Home Front
• Conscription and Conscientious Objectors
• Politics and Protest
• Women and the war
• Industrial Change
• Red Clydeside

British Context - The Atlantic Slave Trade (1770 – 1807)

• The Triangle of Trade
• Britain and the Caribbean
• The Captives experience and slave resistance
• The Abolitionist campaigns

European & World Context – Free at Last? Civil Rights in the USA (1918 - 1968)

• The ‘Open Door’ policy & Immigration
• Separate but Equal – persecution of Black Americans in the 1920s
• Civil Rights campaigns of the 1950s & 1960s
• Ghettos & Black American Radicalism

How will you be assessed?

At National 4, candidates must pass all three units (as detailed above) and also an Added Value Unit.