I’ve taught IGCSE History for seven years and particularly enjoy modern European history. A lot of my tutoring focuses on helping students turn good knowledge into well-argued answers. We practise source questions, essay planning and choosing evidence carefully rather than trying to memorise every date in the textbook. Germany between the wars is a topic I could happily teach all day.

Hi, I’m a History tutor with a background in museums and education. I’ve been working with IGCSE students for four years, mostly online, and I’m especially interested in twentieth-century conflict and international relations. My lessons involve plenty of discussion because I want students to explain why something happened, not just tell me what happened. We also work regularly with unfamiliar sources.

Before moving into private tuition, I spent nine years teaching History in secondary schools. I now concentrate on IGCSE History and support students with both subject knowledge and written technique. Source evaluation is one of my main areas of focus, particularly questions where students need to consider provenance and purpose. I’m also rather fond of teaching Cold War history and its many turning points.

My route into tutoring started with historical research rather than classroom teaching. I’ve since spent five years working individually with IGCSE History students, including several who found essay writing much harder than learning the content. I tend to take essays apart paragraph by paragraph so students can see where analysis is actually happening. My own favourite areas are Russia and twentieth-century Europe.

I came to tutoring after completing postgraduate study in military history and working in heritage education. These days I teach IGCSE History one-to-one, with a particular interest in conflict, diplomacy and the Cold War. I’m quite methodical with exam preparation: we look at the wording of a question, plan the argument, then decide which evidence earns its place rather than filling an answer with facts.

History became my favourite subject at school because I had a teacher who treated it like an argument rather than a collection of dates. That still shapes how I tutor today. I’ve worked with IGCSE students for three years and spend a lot of time on causation, interpretations and essay structure. I enjoy finding primary sources that make a topic feel more real, especially for Germany and the Cold War.