GCSE Texts and Revision Guides

Medicine Through Time- Student Text Book

Early Elizabethan England- Student Text Book

The American West- Student Text Book

Weimar and Nazi Germany- Student Text Book

Medicine In Britain- Pearson Revision Guide

Early Elizabethan England- Pearson Revision Guide

The American West- Pearson Revision Guide

Weimar and Nazi Germany- Pearson Revision Guide

Below are the 'Target 5' workbooks that work well with the revision guides above. The purpose of these work books is to target key misconceptions and barriers to help get you back on track. It also helps to build, develop and extend the history skills you will have learnt in class. If you are aiming for a higher grade, you can also get a 'Target 9' work booklet.

Medicine Through Time- Target 5 Workbook

Early Elizabethan England- Target 5 Workbook

The American West- Target 5 Workbook

Weimar and Nazi Germany- Target 5 Workbook

Hodder also offer a range of revision guides that fit with the Edxcel History course.

Medicine In Britain - Hodder Revision Guide

Early Elizabethan England- Hodder Revision Guide

The American West- Hodder Revision Guide

Weimar and Nazi Germany- Hodder Revision Guide

Pearson also offer flash cards in addition to there revision guides. These are great for revision on the run up to exams.

Medicine In Britain- Revision Flash Cards

Early Elizabethan England- Revision Flash Cards

The American West- Revision Flash Cards

Weimar and Nazi Germany- Revision Flash Cards

Fictional Books Linked With The History GCSE Course

Early Elizabethan England

The Grove Of Eagles by Winston Graham

The Spanish Armada have been defeated in the English Channel and the whole of Elizabethan England is alert for the revenge that is surely to follow. On the Cornish coast, men like John Killigrew - in charge of the castle at Pendennis - are vital to the defence of the country, and on their shoulders rests the safety of the nation. But temptation proves too much for Killigrew, much in debt, who cannot resist the offer of Spanish gold in exchange for a safe landing.

The Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory

Jane Grey was Queen of England for nine days. Using her position as cousin to the deceased king, her father and his conspirators put her on the throne ahead of the king’s half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her crown and locked Jane in the Tower. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner’s block. There Jane turned her father’s greedy, failed grab for power into her own brave and tragic martyrdom.

The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory

Fleeing rebels in Scotland on Queen Elizabeth’s false promise of sanctuary, Mary Queen of Scots finds herself imprisoned as the “guest” of George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick. Soon the newly married couple’s home becomes the center of intrigue and rebellion against Elizabeth, and their loyalty to each other and to their sovereign comes into question. If Mary succeeds in seducing the earl into her own web of treason, or if the great spymaster William Cecil links them to the growing conspiracy to free Mary from her illegal imprisonment, they will all face the headsman.

Other Fictional Books Linked To The Elizabethan Era

  • Column of Fire- Ken Follett

  • War Of The Roses Series- Conn Iggulden

  • Fools and Mortals- Bernard Cornwell

  • Elizabeth I- Margaret George

  • Lady Mary- Lucy Worsely

  • Heresy- S. J. Parris

Medicine Through Time

The Plague Charmer by Karen Maitland

The Plague Charmer is a darkly compelling novel following a stranger who arrives in an isolated community in the grips of a medieval pandemic.

Sawbones by Catherine Johnson

Sixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam has much to be thankful for: trained up as an apprentice by a well-regarded London surgeon, Ezra’s knowledge of human anatomy and skill at the dissection table will secure him a trade for life. However, his world is turned on its head when a failed break-in at his master’s house sets off a strange and disturbing series of events that involves grave robbing, body switching … and murder.

Stretcher Bearer by Dale Le Vack

This is a wonderful authentic account of one man's struggle to survive - and to keep others alive. With the approval of Horton's family, author Dale le Vack has edited Horton's journals for clarity, and added more text to provide background. The result is a superb memoir of one of the darkest periods in history.

Other Fictional and Non- Fictional Books Linked To The Medicine Unit

  • The Wages Of Sin- Katie Welsh

  • Wounded- Emily Mayhew

  • Call The Midwife- Jennifer Worth

  • The Medical Detective- Sandra Hempel

  • Now Is The Time- Melvyn Bragg

  • The Latst Hours- Minette Walters

  • The NHS At 70- Ellen Welch

The American West

Dance With The Devil by Victoria Wilcox

In the American Wild West, Jesse James and his gang are robbing trains, the Sioux Indians are on the warpath, and John Henry Holliday arrives in Texas as a young man with a troubled past hoping to regain his place as a Southern gentleman.

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

When his father sets out on a cattle drive for the summer, fourteen-year-old Travis is left to take care of his family and their farm, and he faces new, unanticipated and often perilous responsibilities in the wilderness of early fronteir Texas. But Travis is not alone. He finds help and comfort in the courage and unwavering love of the stray animal who comes to be his most loyal and very best friend: the big yellow dog Travis calls "Old Yeller."

How I Became A Ghost by Tim Tingle

A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land his people had ever known, and how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost--one with the ability to help those he left behind.

Other Fictional and Non- Fictional Books Linked To The American West Unit

  • To Hell On A Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy The Kid- Mark Lee Gardener

  • The Earth Is Weeping- Peter Cozzens

  • Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee- Dee Brown

  • The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny- Michael Wallis

  • Gone With The Wind- Maragret Mitchell

Weimar and Nazi Germany

Archi­tects of the Holocaust by Darlene R Stille

Archi­tects of the Holo­caust presents the deeds of key lead­ers of the Ger­man gov­ern­ment and the Nazi régime. The book opens with Hitler’s rise to pow­er and the atmos­phere which allowed for it, includ­ing the after­math of World War I, Goebbels’s effec­tive pro­pa­gan­da, and youth recruit­ment.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, and this is her first act of book thievery. So begins Liesel's love affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library . . . wherever there are books to be found.

In The Full Light Of The Sun by Clare Clark

In the Full Light of the Sun follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in a devastating scandal of 1930s' Germany. Based on a true story, unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, this gripping tale is about beauty and justice, and the truth that may be found when our most treasured beliefs are revealed as illusions. Brilliant on authenticity, vanity and self-delusion, it is a novel for our times.

Other Fictional and Non- Fictional Books Linked To Weimar and Nazi Germany

  • Marlene- C. W. Gortner

  • The Berlin Boxing Club- Robert Sharenow

  • The Librarian of Auschwitz- Antonio Iturbe

  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz- Heather Morris

  • The Reader- Bernhard Schlink

  • Schindler's List- Thomas Keneally

  • Goodbye to Berlin- Christopher Isherwood