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At Park Lane, students are encouraged to develop their learning through additional reading at home.
To help students develop a deeper understanding of particular topics in history, it is recommended they carry out further reading around the topics studied in class. In addition to deepening their understanding of a topic, further reading is a great way to improve one's literacy levels, particularly when reading a book by a great historian or journalist.
Please find a comprehensive reading list below:
Year 7 Reading:
Year 7 Reading:
The Usborne Medieval World - Jane Bingham
Measly Middle Ages - Terry Deary
A Little History of Religion - Richard Holloway
A Brief History of the Middle Ages - Martyn Whittock
A History of the Crusades I - Steven Runciman
A Little History of the World - EH Gombrich
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives - Alan Ereira & Terry Jones
Year 8 Reading:
Year 8 Reading:
A Little History of the World - EH Gombrich
The Slave Trade - Hugh Thomas
Conquistadors - Michael Wood
Angry Aztecs - Terry Deary
Empire - Niall Ferguson
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire - Piers Brendon
The French Revolution - Christopher Hibbert
In the Reign of Terror: A Story of the French Revolution - GA Henty
A Brief History of How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World - Thomas Crump
Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution - Emma Griffin
Napoleon - Alan Forrest
1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow - Adam Zamoyski
The First World War: A New History - Hew Strachan
The First World War: An Illustrated History - AJP Taylor
A Short History of the First World War - Gary Sheffield
Year 9 Reading:
Year 9 Reading:
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Pelican Introduction - Orlando Figes
Life in the Third Reich: Daily Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 - Paul Roland
The Origins of the Second World War - AJP Taylor
The Origins of the Second World War - Richard Overy
The Usborne Introduction to The Second World War - Paul Dowswell
The Cold War - John Lewis Gaddis
The Holocaust: A New History - Laurence Rees
Auschwitz : The Nazis & The 'Final Solution' - Laurence Rees
Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust - Lyn Smith
The State of Africa - Martin Meredith
KS4 Reading:
KS4 Reading:
Peacemakers: Six Months that Changed The World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War - Margaret MacMillan
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 - Anne Applebaum
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 - Ian Kershaw
Access to History: Europe and the Cold War 1945-91 - David Williamson
The Cold War - John Lewis Gaddis
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Pelican Introduction - Orlando Figes
The Origins of the Second World War - AJP Taylor
The Origins of the Second World War - Richard Overy
Germany 1918-1945: A depth study: A Study in Depth: Student's Book - Greg Lacey
Russia and the USSR 1905-1941: a depth study: Student's Book - Terry Fiehn
Understand the Cold War - Carole Bryan-Jones
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