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The Access to History series is the most popular and trusted series for AS and A level history students. The new titles combine all the strengths of this well-loved series with a new design and features that allow all students access to the content and study skills needed to achieve exam success.
Design features include:
·AS questions and exam tips
·Definitions of key terms
·Summaries of key historical debates.
This title is written specifically for the 2008 AS and A2 specifications for all exam boards. It charts the key changes in the social, political and cultural development of Britain across this period. It looks at key individuals throughout these years, from Churchill and Wilson to Thatcher and Blair, assessing each of their periods in office and charting the rise and fall of political consensus. Finally, in assessing the changes that have taken place, the book enables students to gain a clearer perspective on the cultural and political Britain that they live in today.
Throughout the book, key dates, terms, and issues are highlighted, and historical interpretations of key debates are outlined. Summary diagrams are included to consolidate knowledge and understanding of the period, and exam-style questions and tips written by examiners for the OCR and Edexcel exam specifications provide the opportunity to develop exam skills.
Design features include:
·AS questions and exam tips
·Definitions of key terms
·Summaries of key historical debates.
This title is written specifically for the 2008 AS and A2 specifications for all exam boards. It charts the key changes in the social, political and cultural development of Britain across this period. It looks at key individuals throughout these years, from Churchill and Wilson to Thatcher and Blair, assessing each of their periods in office and charting the rise and fall of political consensus. Finally, in assessing the changes that have taken place, the book enables students to gain a clearer perspective on the cultural and political Britain that they live in today.
Throughout the book, key dates, terms, and issues are highlighted, and historical interpretations of key debates are outlined. Summary diagrams are included to consolidate knowledge and understanding of the period, and exam-style questions and tips written by examiners for the OCR and Edexcel exam specifications provide the opportunity to develop exam skills.
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Modern History Lecturer Leicester University; Best-selling Access To History author.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a teacher of Edexcel A level modern British History this is the book we have been waiting for. What a great pity the publishers failed to get this out in time for the start of the new spec. in Sept 2008. This is clear and concise with no chronological jumping around other text books are prone to. My students have had to buy the book themselves and all those that have find it really helpful.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
(Just an FYI - I am the daughter of the account holder)
Michael Lynch creates a book well worth buying for any student, and even anyone just interested in an accessible, easily digestible textbook.
What I found particularly helpful, as a Unit 2, Edexcel student at AS (examined June 2009), were the study guides at the end of each chapter, that includes a practice question. Lynch sets out practical and useful ways to plan essays, as well as a logical plan of all the 'own knowledge' needed to get full marks.
With almost entirely the help of this book (and my teachers of course...;]) I needed to sit the exam only once, and achieved 100%.
To summarise - doing a course in Britain 1945 onwards, or just generally interested? THEN BUY THIS BOOK!
Michael Lynch creates a book well worth buying for any student, and even anyone just interested in an accessible, easily digestible textbook.
What I found particularly helpful, as a Unit 2, Edexcel student at AS (examined June 2009), were the study guides at the end of each chapter, that includes a practice question. Lynch sets out practical and useful ways to plan essays, as well as a logical plan of all the 'own knowledge' needed to get full marks.
With almost entirely the help of this book (and my teachers of course...;]) I needed to sit the exam only once, and achieved 100%.
To summarise - doing a course in Britain 1945 onwards, or just generally interested? THEN BUY THIS BOOK!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
To begin with, I am an A2 AQA history student who took this exam last week. This book has been essential to my study and it contains a comprehensive history of Britain from 1945-2007, outlining clearly the economic, foreign and social policies of each significant period (e.g. 1951-64, '64-79 etc), which is brilliant for creating essay plans and for general revision.
There are two problems however that I've found with this book:
1) A minor one is that they split the Thatcher rule into two chapters, covering most of her time in office in one and then just the Poll Tax and a conclusion in the other. Thus, partly due to my own fault, it's easy to overlook the Poll Tax during revision as when you read the predominantly Thatcher chapter, you fall into a false sense of security that you've finished her period and thus miss out issues such as the Poll Tax in subsequent practice essay plans you may create.
2) The bigger problem is the bias against Tony Blair. Yes, he is a controversial figure and one can raise issue with a lot of his policies, but the book is overwhelmingly bias against him, to the point that even positive things that Labour did e.g. raise employment by around 2.5 million, the author finds fault in and somehow turns this into a negative aspect of Blair's time in office. Oddly, and perhaps thankfully, the author manages to balance the most controversial aspect of this period, the Iraq war. If you're taking an exam and you believe Blair will pop up, then try and find at least one other source of information which balances this negative review of him.
There is also a running thread of Euro-scepticism in the book, which basically criticises Britain's increased involvement in the EU. Additionally, at the end of the book the author satirises environmentalism and portrays it as a deluded idea, and writes a definition of the BNP as people who have 'personality disorders'.
Aside from these issues, this is a brilliant book (and is on the whole, balanced) and should be the Bible of any A Level History student taking an exam for this period.
There are two problems however that I've found with this book:
1) A minor one is that they split the Thatcher rule into two chapters, covering most of her time in office in one and then just the Poll Tax and a conclusion in the other. Thus, partly due to my own fault, it's easy to overlook the Poll Tax during revision as when you read the predominantly Thatcher chapter, you fall into a false sense of security that you've finished her period and thus miss out issues such as the Poll Tax in subsequent practice essay plans you may create.
2) The bigger problem is the bias against Tony Blair. Yes, he is a controversial figure and one can raise issue with a lot of his policies, but the book is overwhelmingly bias against him, to the point that even positive things that Labour did e.g. raise employment by around 2.5 million, the author finds fault in and somehow turns this into a negative aspect of Blair's time in office. Oddly, and perhaps thankfully, the author manages to balance the most controversial aspect of this period, the Iraq war. If you're taking an exam and you believe Blair will pop up, then try and find at least one other source of information which balances this negative review of him.
There is also a running thread of Euro-scepticism in the book, which basically criticises Britain's increased involvement in the EU. Additionally, at the end of the book the author satirises environmentalism and portrays it as a deluded idea, and writes a definition of the BNP as people who have 'personality disorders'.
Aside from these issues, this is a brilliant book (and is on the whole, balanced) and should be the Bible of any A Level History student taking an exam for this period.
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