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Welcome to the 2024-25 A-level Ancient History Study Group!:captain::chaplin::cyber::dogt::england::hat::mob::stupido::troll::viking:


This thread is a place you can connect with fellow students who are also studying Ancient History at A-level. Here we offer a space to support each other support as you prepare for your exams/coursework.

Feel free to share any helpful tips, resources, or advice you find along the way, and share any questions you have about the subject.

Help encourage others, celebrate your achievements, or simply vent when things get a bit overwhelming!

Lil serious note - just a reminder please be aware that sharing or requesting copyrighted materials is against our community guidelines, and moving conversations off-site for this purpose is not allowed. Posts violating these rules will be taken down.

To get started, here are a few questions to break the ice:

Which exam board are you following?

What do you enjoy the most about this subject or course?

What topics within A-level Ancient History do you find most challenging?

Reply 1

Original post by Blinkr
Welcome to the 2024-25 A-level Ancient History Study Group!:captain::chaplin::cyber::dogt::england::hat::mob::stupido::troll::viking:

This thread is a place you can connect with fellow students who are also studying Ancient History at A-level. Here we offer a space to support each other support as you prepare for your exams/coursework.
Feel free to share any helpful tips, resources, or advice you find along the way, and share any questions you have about the subject.
Help encourage others, celebrate your achievements, or simply vent when things get a bit overwhelming!
Lil serious note - just a reminder please be aware that sharing or requesting copyrighted materials is against our community guidelines, and moving conversations off-site for this purpose is not allowed. Posts violating these rules will be taken down.
To get started, here are a few questions to break the ice:

Which exam board are you following?

What do you enjoy the most about this subject or course?

What topics within A-level Ancient History do you find most challenging?


i am studying a level ancient history, and am struggling to find resouces for emporers and empire 31bc-63ad . can anyone send me any of their revision work?

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Original post by scott673
i am studying a level ancient history, and am struggling to find resouces for emporers and empire 31bc-63ad . can anyone send me any of their revision work?


Hey I found this website which looks quite useful! Also may be worth reading some of Mary Beard's (historian) work or seeing if she has videos on Youtube! She wrote a book all about Ancient Rome and emperors :smile:
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ik its too late for this year but i thought it might be helpful for other cohorts, i didnt have the best teacher so this is everything ive used to revise ancient history Perseus Digital Library -- this website has the majority of the sources on it and you can navigate directly to the section you need.I'm not sure what modules you will be doing but this guy (41) Alcibiades Isace - YouTube -- has videos on the julio- claudian emperors, relations between greek and non greek states, and a few videos on the breakdown of the late roman republic - the overview video is especially helpful as he gives section numbers for all the relevant sources. Rome: Political System of The Late Republic -- this video is also good but its the only one he has on romeif you end up doing the rise of macedon this website is really good Alexander the Great it is GCSE but the information is the same so its still helpful and this video playslist is also good but he dosent do a huge amount of source analysis https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6DY9psvTXR9ls3aEQckg4iu2eWS2k2Fc&si=JF_7-4SdCAPyHDhn he also has videos on the relations between greek and non greek states.I think thats everything i used to learn it , although i would also recommend getting a couple of physical copies of the books like thucydides or plutarch because its easier to annotate and then revise.I hope this helps!

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Original post by immy7890
ik its too late for this year but i thought it might be helpful for other cohorts, i didnt have the best teacher so this is everything ive used to revise ancient history Perseus Digital Library -- this website has the majority of the sources on it and you can navigate directly to the section you need.I'm not sure what modules you will be doing but this guy (41) Alcibiades Isace - YouTube -- has videos on the julio- claudian emperors, relations between greek and non greek states, and a few videos on the breakdown of the late roman republic - the overview video is especially helpful as he gives section numbers for all the relevant sources. Rome: Political System of The Late Republic -- this video is also good but its the only one he has on romeif you end up doing the rise of macedon this website is really good Alexander the Great it is GCSE but the information is the same so its still helpful and this video playslist is also good but he dosent do a huge amount of source analysis https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6DY9psvTXR9ls3aEQckg4iu2eWS2k2Fc&si=JF_7-4SdCAPyHDhn he also has videos on the relations between greek and non greek states.I think thats everything i used to learn it , although i would also recommend getting a couple of physical copies of the books like thucydides or plutarch because its easier to annotate and then revise.I hope this helps!


This is so helpful! Thank you!

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Pamela Bradley's book on Rome - its brilliant for Republic, empire and Julio-Claudians

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