History · KS3 to A Level

History Key Terms

Every word a history department teaches, Year 7 to A Level, in one A4 book. Each key stage gets its own pages: the terms grouped the way they are taught rather than alphabetically, a definition that fits on two lines, and a worked example beside almost every one. Each key stage opens on one invented source extract, annotated — historical enquiry and sources, the one skill every other band in the book assumes — and the numbers on it appear again beside the same words in the list; a further four pages carry a real drawn figure wherever a picture genuinely teaches faster than a sentence: a timeline across the three eras, a long-term-cause-to-consequence chain, two sources either confirming or contradicting each other, an orthodox view challenged by a revisionist one. Then a page on using the words: the ones the assessment itself is written in — GCSE History carries four assessment objectives, not the three most subjects share — the false friends that mean something else in a history classroom, the same point written weakly and then properly, and what each word becomes at the next key stage.

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All key terms

Key Stage 3 · the words 1: Historical skills and enquiry; Medieval Britain, 1066 to 1509 · History Key Terms, page 2 — Page 2 *Key Stage 3 · the words 1: Historical skills and enquiry; Medieval Britain, 1066 to 1509*

Key Stage 3 · the words 2: Early Modern Britain, 1509 to 1745; Empire, industry and ideas, 1745 to 1901; The twentieth-century world; World and local history · History Key Terms, page 3 — Page 3 *Key Stage 3 · the words 2: Early Modern Britain, 1509 to 1745; Empire, industry and ideas, 1745 to 1901; The twentieth-century world; World and local history*

Key Stage 3 · the words at work: The words that earn marks; false friends; say it properly; what these words become next · History Key Terms, page 4 — Page 4 *Key Stage 3 · the words at work: The words that earn marks; false friends; say it properly; what these words become next*

GCSE · the words 1: Historical enquiry and sources; Second-order concepts · History Key Terms, page 5 — Page 5 *GCSE · the words 1: Historical enquiry and sources; Second-order concepts*

GCSE · the words 2: Types of historical study; Medieval and Early Modern vocabulary; Political systems and power · History Key Terms, page 6 — Page 6 *GCSE · the words 2: Types of historical study; Medieval and Early Modern vocabulary; Political systems and power*

GCSE · the words 3: Society, economy and conflict; The twentieth-century world · History Key Terms, page 7 — Page 7 *GCSE · the words 3: Society, economy and conflict; The twentieth-century world*

GCSE · the words at work: The words that earn marks; false friends; say it properly; what these words become next · History Key Terms, page 8 — Page 8 *GCSE · the words at work: The words that earn marks; false friends; say it properly; what these words become next*

A Level · the words 1: Historiography and interpretation; Second-order concepts in depth · History Key Terms, page 9 — Page 9 *A Level · the words 1: Historiography and interpretation; Second-order concepts in depth*

A Level · the words 2: Political and constitutional vocabulary; Economic and social change; Twentieth-century conflict · History Key Terms, page 10 — Page 10 *A Level · the words 2: Political and constitutional vocabulary; Economic and social change; Twentieth-century conflict*

A Level · the words at work: The words that earn marks; false friends; say it properly; what these habits become in independent work · History Key Terms, page 11 — Page 11 *A Level · the words at work: The words that earn marks; false friends; say it properly; what these habits become in independent work*

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Referenced to the DfE's national curriculum programmes of study for history at Key Stage 3, the History GCSE subject content (April 2014, DFE-00346-2014), and the GCE AS and A level subject content for history (DFE-00364-2014), which names cause, consequence, change, continuity, similarity, difference and significance as the concepts every specification must assess; GCSE and A Level also follow Ofqual's subject-level conditions and guidance, which set the assessment objectives quoted on the words-at-work pages; 109 of 206 terms appear by name in one of those documents and the cover says so, the rest are standard historical vocabulary defined here in plain English; no awarding body is named, and nothing a board decides for itself appears in the A Level pages
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