- AO2Explain and analyse historical events and periods using second-order concepts (cause, consequence, change, continuity, similarity, difference, significance)
- AO3Analyse, evaluate and use sources (contemporary to the period) to make substantiated judgements in their historical context
- AO4Analyse, evaluate and make substantiated judgements about interpretations (academic and popular) of the past
- P1.CP.1Crimes, courts and punishments in medieval England, including trial by ordeal and the bloody code roots
- P1.CP.2Early modern: vagrancy, witch trials, the bloody code and transportation to America/Australia
- P1.CP.3Industrial reform: Robert Peel, the Metropolitan Police, prison reform (Pentonville) and abolition of the bloody code
- P1.CP.4Modern crime, policing and punishment: abolition of the death penalty (1965), modern police service, cyber-crime
- P1.PH.1Public health in medieval towns and the impact of the Black Death (c.1250–c.1500)
- P1.PH.2Living conditions, plague responses and quack medicine in early modern Britain (c.1500–c.1750)
- P1.PH.3Industrial Britain: cholera, miasma theory, Edwin Chadwick and the 1848/1875 Public Health Acts
- P1.PH.4The 20th century: NHS foundation 1948, mass vaccination, antibiotics, lifestyle campaigns and inequalities
- P2.D.1The Mughal Empire 1526–1707: founders, Akbar’s religious tolerance, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb and decline
- P2.D.2The Spanish Conquistadors 1519–1551: Aztec and Inca empires, Cortés, Pizarro, motives, methods and consequences
- P2.D.3The First Crusade c.1070–1100: causes, the People’s Crusade, the Princes’ Crusade, Jerusalem 1099
- P2.D.4Living under Nazi rule 1933–1945: terror state, propaganda, opposition, the Holocaust
- P2.PS.1The Making of America 1789–1900: westward expansion, slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction, Plains Indians
- P2.PS.2Viking Expansion c.750–c.1050: raids and settlement, kingdoms in Britain and Scandinavia, conversion to Christianity
- P2.PS.4Personal Rule to Restoration 1629–1660: Charles I, Civil War, Cromwell’s rule, Restoration
- P3.D.1The Norman Conquest 1065–1087: succession crisis, 1066, feudalism, Domesday Book, castles, resistance and revolts
- P3.D.2The Elizabethans 1580–1603: religious settlement, plots, Spanish Armada, voyages of discovery and society
- P3.D.3Britain in Peace and War 1900–1918: Liberal reforms, women’s suffrage, WWI causes, home front and consequences