History
You can find history on the first floor of the Clapham Building, where we have three large classrooms, two sixth-form seminar rooms and our School archive. We expect history to be rigorous and fun and our historians to be self-starting, broad-minded and incisive.
We travel to the Great War battlefields in Year 9, to Russia, Poland and Germany in Years 10 and 11. Young historians are exploring and cataloguing our School archive. Older historians hear visiting speakers in the Barker Society. Ambitious historians tackle anything from prehistory to postmodernism in the Hellfire Club.
Year 7 onwards
Studying medieval history in Year 7, early modern in Year 8, or early 20th century in Year 9, you are developing the healthy cynicism of the historian and scholar. GCSE history is popular because we study the 20th century from 1919-91.
Sixth Form
Sixth form historians choose 15th and 16th or 19th century England. We also study Germany or Russia in the nineteenth century and at A2 the USA 1877-1989. There is no coursework. Able historians sit Advanced Extension in their lower sixth.
Staff
Mr N Born BA
Mr Ben Barton BA
Mrs Charlotte Brown BA
Mr Richard Tillett MA