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Advanced Higher History - project-dissertation
Project-dissertation 2019 (All links open as PDF files)
Please note: The following candidate evidence and commentaries should be used alongside the AH Dissertation Webinar 16 March 2021, available from the AH History subject page on the SQA website.
Field of study 1 — Northern Britain from the Iron Age to 1034
- Candidate 3 (To what extent was the military leadership of Governor Agricola successful in the occupation of Northern Britain?)
- Candidate 3 Evidence
- Candidate 3 Commentary
Field of study 2 — Scotland: independence and kingship, 1249–1334
- Candidate 4 (How important was the part played by William Wallace in the wars of independence between 1297 and 1305?)
- Candidate 4 Evidence
- Candidate 4 Commentary
Field of study 4 — USA: ‘a house divided’, 1850–65 — Scotland: independence and kingship, 1249–1334
- Candidate 5 (What factors best explain the growth of the abolitionist movement within America up to 1860?)
- Candidate 5 Evidence
- Candidate 5 Commentary
Field of study 6 — Germany: from democracy to dictatorship, 1918–39
- Candidate 6 (To what extent did economic collapse allow the rise of the Nazis by 1933?)
- Candidate 6 Evidence
- Candidate 6 Commentary
Field of study 8 — Russia: from Tsarism to Stalinism, 1914–45
- Candidate 1 (To what did Stalin owe his grip of power?)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 2 (To what did Stalin owe his grip of power?)
- Candidate 2 Evidence
Field of study 10 — Britain: at war and peace, 1938–51
- Candidate 7 (Was the British bombing offensive worth the costs in men and resources that were invested in it?)
- Candidate 7 Evidence
- Candidate 7 Commentary
Project-dissertation 2016 (All links open as PDF files)
Field of study 2 - Scotland: Independence and Kingship, 1249-1334
- Candidate 1 (Edward I's political decisions and his failure to conquer Scotland)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
- Candidate 2 (Defeat at Falkirk and the continued resistance to Edward I)
- Candidate 2 Evidence
- Candidate 2 Commentary
Field of study 3 - Italy: the Renaissance in the 15th and Early 16th Centuries
- Candidate 1 (Classical antiquity and the development of C15 renaissance humanism)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
Field of study 4 - Scotland: from the Treaty of Union to the Enlightenment, 1707-1815
- Candidate 1 (Prince Charles Edward Stuart's responsibility for the failure of the '45)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
Field of study 5 - USA: ‘A House Divided’, 1850–1865
- Candidate 1 (A single cause for the outbreak of the American Civil War?)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
Field of study 7 - Germany: from Democracy to Dictatorship, 1918–1939
- Candidate 1 (The Nazis' policies towards women, 1933-39)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
- Candidate 2 (The Nazis' attempt to create a Volksgemeinschaft)
- Candidate 2 Evidence
- Candidate 2 Commentary
- Candidate 3 (The extent of opposition and resistance to Nazism, 1933-39)
- Candidate 3 Evidence
- Candidate 3 Commentary
- Candidate 4 (Propaganda and the rise of the Nazi party, 1928-32)
- Candidate 4 Evidence
- Candidate 4 Commentary
Field of study 8 - South Africa: Race and Power, 1902–1984
- Candidate 1 (Dr D F Malan and the growth of Afrikaner nationalism to 1948)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
Field of study 9 - Russia: from Tsarism to Stalinism, 1914–1945
- Candidate 1 (Opportunism and Stalin's rise to power)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
Field of study 10 - Spain: the Civil War - Causes, Conflict and Consequences, 1923–1945
- Candidate 1 (Republican weakness and a failed coup but successful Nationalist war)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
Field of study 10 - Britain: At War and Peace, 1938-51
- Candidate 1 (The Second World War as a "locomotive of social change" in Britain)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
