Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56972 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
Modern History Lecturer Leicester University; Best-selling Access To History author.

Customer Reviews

A/S British History.
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.

Brilliant book.
(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!