Pearson Edexcel International GCSE in History · 4HI1 · Free · no account needed

Incandio History

289 lessons across all 21 options of Pearson Edexcel International GCSE History, completely free. Every lesson answers one essential question, gives the dates worth knowing and the reason each one is worth marks, names the historians who disagree, warns about the structural caps in the mark scheme that nobody teaches, and ends with the one thing a Grade 9 answer holds that a Grade 6 answer does not.

Also known as Edexcel IGCSE History — Pearson’s own name for the qualification is the International GCSE, and that is the name every Incandio page uses.

Then the part a revision guide cannot do: you teach the argument back to Ember, an AI pupil who asks the awkward question, and defend it in a structured debate marked against published descriptors.

Your centre sits two Paper 1 depth studies and, on Paper 2, one historical investigation and one breadth study. Pick the four your school teaches.

Depth studies (Paper 1)

• Option 1 · The French Revolution, c1780–99 — 19 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option 2 · Development of a nation: unification of Italy, 1848–70 — 13 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option 3 · Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918–45 — 22 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option 4 · Colonial rule and the nationalist challenge in India, 1919–47 — 16 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option 5 · Dictatorship and conflict in the USSR, 1924–53 — 13 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option 6 · A world divided: superpower relations, 1943–72 — 13 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option 7 · A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945–74 — 12 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option 8 · South Africa: from union to the end of apartheid, 1948–94 — 14 lessons across 5 key topics

Historical investigations (Paper 2, Section A)

• Option A1 · The origins and course of the First World War, 1905–18 — 13 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option A2 · Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905–24 — 10 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option A3 · The USA, 1918–41 — 15 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option A4 · The Vietnam Conflict, 1945–75 — 11 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option A5 · East Germany, 1958–90 — 11 lessons across 5 key topics

Breadth studies in change (Paper 2, Section B)

• Option B1 · America: from new nation to divided union, 1783–1877 — 18 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option B2 · Changes in medicine, c1848–c1948 — 16 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option B3 · Japan in transformation, 1853–1945 — 12 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option B4 · China: conflict, crisis and change, 1900–89 — 13 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option B5 · The changing role of international organisations: the league and the UN, 1919–c2011 — 12 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option B6 · The changing nature of warfare and international conflict, 1919–2011 — 10 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option B7 · The Middle East: conflict, crisis and change, 1917–2012 — 11 lessons across 5 key topics
• Option B8 · Diversity, rights and equality in Britain, 1914–2010 — 15 lessons across 5 key topics

The specification, and exam practice

• The 4HI1 specification — papers, assessment objectives and question shapes.
• Exam Ready — exam-style practice for every option, marked on Incandio against the real caps.
• Incandio — learn every idea, teach it, then defend it.