A Level History Tutoring
Build sharp historical arguments and master source analysis. Our expert tutors help you write essays that earn top marks.
Whether you're working through your breadth and depth studies in Year 12, developing your historical investigation in Year 13, or building essay structure and source evaluation skills, our tutors provide structured support tailored to your exam board, chosen topics, and goals.
What You Get with A Level History Tutoring
Comprehensive support designed to help you achieve your target grade
Exam Mastery
- Essay planning and structure: clear argument, supported analysis, counter-argument
- Source analysis: provenance, content, tone, NOP (nature, origin, purpose)
- Historiography: using historians' interpretations to strengthen your essays
- Past paper practice with mark scheme analysis and examiner tips
Historical Investigation (NEA)
- Topic selection: finding a focused, arguable historical question
- Working with primary and secondary sources - selection and evaluation
- Structuring a historical argument across 3,500–4,500 words
- Writing a bibliography and referencing sources correctly
Concept Building
- Second-order concepts: causation, consequence, significance, change and continuity
- How to build a sustained argument - not just a narrative
- Connecting specific knowledge to broader historical themes
- Regular progress tracking and personalised study plans
Students Improving Their History Grades
"My essays told the story without making an argument. My tutor showed me how to build a line of argument and every response I've written since has been analytically focused."
Hannah B.
A Level History, AQA, Summer 2024
"Historiography was the thing separating my essays from top marks. My tutor helped me understand how to use historians' arguments as tools rather than just quotations."
Finn O.
A Level History, OCR, Summer 2024
"Source analysis questions were my weakest area. My tutor taught me NOP analysis properly and I stopped writing generic evaluations that got no marks."
Kezia M.
A Level History, Edexcel, Summer 2023
How It Works
Simple steps to get started with A Level History tutoring
Buy a Bundle
Choose 3 to 100 hours based on your needs. Split across subjects if needed.
Complete Onboarding
Tell us your exam board, year group, weak areas, goals, and scheduling preferences.
Get Matched & Start
Matched within 24 hours. Schedule your first session immediately.
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A Level History Syllabus Coverage
Our tutors are experienced with all major A Level History exam boards - AQA, OCR, Edexcel, and Cambridge - and with a wide range of historical periods and topics. Whatever your breadth and depth studies cover, we can provide targeted support.
1Historical Skills: Essays
- Building a clear, sustained analytical argument
- Using specific factual knowledge as evidence, not decoration
- Counter-argument and balance - showing awareness of complexity
- Integrating historiography to strengthen your line of argument
- +1 more
2Historical Skills: Sources
- Nature, origin and purpose (NOP) of historical sources
- Evaluating provenance: does the origin affect reliability?
- Cross-referencing sources: corroboration and contradiction
- Distinguishing content from inference
- +1 more
3Breadth Studies
- Long-term change and continuity across a 100+ year period
- Thematic analysis: political, economic, social, cultural change
- Causal analysis: what drove change or prevented it?
- Case studies within the breadth period as specific evidence
- +1 more
4Depth Studies
- Detailed knowledge of a shorter period (typically 30–50 years)
- Micro-level causation: specific events, decisions, individuals
- Political, social, economic, and ideological dimensions
- Primary source evaluation within the depth study context
- +1 more
5Historical Interpretations
- Understanding how and why historical interpretations change
- Key historiographical schools: Whig, Marxist, revisionist, post-revisionist
- Evaluating the arguments of named historians
- Using interpretations in essay responses at A2 level
- +1 more
6Historical Investigation (NEA)
- Choosing a focused, arguable research question
- Finding and evaluating primary and secondary sources
- Structuring a 3,500–4,500 word historical essay
- Footnoting, bibliography, and referencing conventions
- +1 more
A Level History Assessment Structure
Understand exactly how you'll be assessed and prepare strategically for each component
Component 1 - Breadth Study
Written ExamHistorical breadth study covering long-term change and continuity, including source evaluation
Component 2 - Depth Study
Written ExamHistorical depth study covering a shorter, more intensively studied period
Historical Investigation (NEA)
Coursework / NEAAn independent historical investigation on a topic of the student's choice, using primary and secondary sources
Grade Boundaries (Summer 2024)
Grade boundaries shift each session. These are indicative based on recent exam-board data.
Key Assessment Notes
- Both exam papers are sat at the end of Year 13 - A Level History is linear
- The historical investigation (NEA) accounts for 20% of your grade - choose your topic carefully and start early
- Strong essays argue a clear line throughout - avoid writing in narrative or chronological order
- Grade boundaries shift each year based on overall cohort performance
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about A Level History tutoring