ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a short summary of the current developments in the history curriculum and assessment in the 16-19 year group, useful to all those involved in this stage of history education. It introduces major changes to history A Levels. A description of the main trends in terms of topics, numbers and results in the years 2008–14 will be followed by an explanation of the rationale behind the 2015 reforms. The most positive has come from the independent sector where courses had often been delivered over two years in any case. Consultation over the revised history A Level suggests a lukewarm response at best. Students completing their new linear A Levels will no longer be purely twentieth-century specialists. If there is one aspiration, shared by educators at all levels, it is that the new A Levels will lead to 'deeper learning'. This chapter summarizes the main changes incorporated in the new A Levels.
