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Year 8 History

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Year 8 History

Year 8 History

Year 8 History is again divided into the two themes: Everyday Life and Power and Democracy, broadly from 1500 to 1900.

Power and Democracy

This covers a very exciting period of change in the balance of power in Britain until a final move towards democracy at the end of the period of study.

Family Trees and the Tudor Dynasty
The many faces of Elizabeth 1
The Causes of the Civil War
The power of the Church
James I & the Gunpowder plot
From Civil War to The Glorious Revolution
The British Empire
The Triangular Trade and Abolition of Slavery

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Everyday Life

The impact on the changing religion of Everyday Life
Industrail Revolution: Key inventions
Industrail Revolution: Factory Life
Industrial Revolution: City Life
Life as a slave

TRIPS

From Summer 2011 we are running a new trip to Cromford Mill in Derbyshire. See the link.

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