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18 topics covered, mapped to the official SQA 2026 syllabus.

Topic 1

Part 2: Mary Queen of Scots, and the Reformation, 1542–1587

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Part 3: The Treaty of Union, 1689–1715

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Part 4: Migration and Empire, 1830–1939

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Part 5: The Era of the Great War, 1900–1928

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Part 2: War of the Three Kingdoms, 1603–1651

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Part 3: The trade in enslaved African people, 1770–1807

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Topic 7

Key issues Description of content

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Part 4: Changing Britain, 1760–1914

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Part 5: The Making of Modern Britain, 1880–1951

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Part 2: ‘Tea and Freedom’, the American Revolution, 1774–83

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Part 3: USA 1850–80

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Part 4: Hitler and Nazi Germany, 1919–39

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Part 5: Red Flag: Lenin and the Russian Revolution, 1894–1921

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Part 6: Mussolini and Fascist Italy, 1919–1939

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Part 8: Appeasement and the Road to War, 1918–1939

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Part 9: World War II, 1939–45

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Part 10: The Cold War 1945–89

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Topic 18

Component 2: assignment

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