Welcome to PastMatters

These pages have been designed to support your studies across the Humanities subjects. They include Homeworks for Year Seven to Year Twelve. New and additional revision packs, links and revision games and resources for KS4 and KS5.

Click the tabs above to navigate through the pages. There are also hundreds of smaller posts that are listed in chronological order below. Click the links and tags in each post to link to other related items. Some important tags for you to try are: 12 Key dates, American West, Medicine, Biographies, West.

The GCSE exam dates have been confirmed for January and the Summer series of exams. Make a careful note of the dates and times to be well-prepared.

January 2012

  • Y10 American West – Monday 23rd Jan 2012 9am
  • Y11 American West Upgrade – Monday 23rd Jan 2012 9am
  • Y11 Medicine – Tuesday 17th Jan 2012 1pm

Summer

  • Y12 AS History: French Revolution paper – 15th May 2012 9am
  • Y11 Humanities: Paper 1 – 28th May 2012 9am
  • Y11 Humanities: Paper 2 – 1st June 2012 1pm
  • Y11 Surgery – Tuesday 12th June 2012 1pm
  • Y11 Medicine Upgrade – Friday 15th June 2012 9am

See Revision pages for GCSE History and the A Level French Revolution pages.

 

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Exam on Monday – American West Revision

 

Getting ready for the exam on Monday – there are a number of ways to be revising on this site.

 

Consider clicking the American West link at the top of this post to see everything filed under the heading ‘American West’.

 

Main pages to visit: Exam Technique | Revision for GCSE | Indians | Settlers | Developers | Conflict |

 

There are lots of Weblinks that can also help to sites like BBC Bitesize (http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/shp/americanwest/) that are full of revision games and help.

 

Keep revising hard, and don’t forget to share your revision using the social media buttons.

 

Enjoy!

 

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American West Games

History of the American West

 

Dozens of Revision games and quizzes available online here. Test your knowledge online.

 

via American West Games.

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How the American West was really won: C19th images of early settlers in Deadwood | Mail Online

How the West was REALLY won: Early settlers on the coach to Deadwood and in pow-wows with the natives revealed in 19th century photographs

By Tom Leonard

Last updated at 8:51 AM on 10th March 2011Comments (21) Share

The Wild West as it really was rather than how Hollywood has imagined it is revealed in this extraordinary collection of pictures.The grainy photographs, taken in the late 19th century in and around the notorious gold mining town of Deadwood, provide a unique, sepia-toned glimpse of the Wild West. The images were published in American papers this week after being released by the U.S. Library of Congress.Deadwood — recently brought to life in an acclaimed TV drama series of the same name, starring Ian McShane — has gone down in legend as a riotous and lawless town that was home to the likes of ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok, Calamity Jane and Wyatt Earp. Modern travel: The photograph taken by John C.

via How the American West was really won: C19th images of early settlers in Deadwood | Mail Online.

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Biography Surgery Christian Barnaard

 

 

 

 

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Biography Surgery Horace Wells

 

 

 

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Biography Surgery Landsteiner

 

 

 

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Biography Surgery Joseph Lister

 

 

 

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Biography Surgery James Simpson

 

 

 

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Biography Surgery Dr Horace Wells

 

 

 

 

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Biography Surgery Sir Humphry Davy

 

 

 

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