GCE A/L History case studies
GCE A/L History · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The GCE Advanced Level History examination is a school-leaving and university-entrance subject in the Sri Lankan A/L system. It is written for candidates who have completed the Advanced Level history syllabus and who intend to use the subject for university admission, for teacher training, or for further study in the humanities. The GCE A/L History case studies are 5 cases and about 4,235 words.
1Cinnamon, Corvée and the Translation Trap: Three Sources on Kandyan Labour
A third-year student is writing a dissertation on cinnamon peeling in the Kandyan borderlands between 1760 and 1796. She has three sources.
814 words, about 4 min2Reading a Dry-Zone Cemetery: One Sherd, Two Dates, Six Weeks
A dry-zone mound in the north-central province is being excavated ahead of an irrigation rehabilitation scheme. Fourteen cist burials have been exposed in three trenches.
799 words, about 4 min3Which Law, Whose Precedent? A Jaffna Land Dispute, 1824
In 1824 a British official in Jaffna, serving as collector and magistrate, hears a dispute over a paddy field of about four acres. A temple claims the field under a grant recorded in a Dutch-era thombo register; a family claims it by inheritance and produces a deed and five witnesses.
862 words, about 4 min4A One-Page Brief Before the Second Reading, July 1978
A newly appointed adviser to the Minister of Constitutional Affairs must prepare a one-page brief before the second reading of a constitutional bill. At the general election of July 1977 the United National Party won 140 of 168 seats with about 50.9 per cent of the vote.
909 words, about 5 min5Forty Children and a Paid Agent: Weighing Evidence before the Factory Bill
A select committee of the House of Commons is taking evidence on a bill to regulate child labour in cotton mills. Before it is a mill in a Lancashire town employing 1,200 hands, of whom the overseer says about 500 are under fourteen.
851 words, about 4 min