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WJEC A-Level History 601-5817-7
Government, Rebellion and Society in Wales and England c.1485-1603Period study
Topic overviewHenry VII and the establishment of the Tudor dynastyThe revolution in government under Henry VIIIWolsey, Cromwell and Cecil as chief ministersElizabeth, the privy council and ParliamentThe Henrician ReformationReligion under Edward VI and Mary IThe Elizabethan Church SettlementThe Pilgrimage of Grace and the Tudor rebellionsTrade, industry and the growth of townsThe rise of the gentry and social changePoverty, vagrancy and the poor lawsThe Acts of Union and the government of WalesReligion, the Welsh Bible and Welsh identity
Government, Revolution and Society in Wales and England c.1603-1715Period study
Topic overviewJames I and the Stuart accessionCharles I and the drift to conflictThe causes and course of the Civil WarRegicide and the experiment in republicThe Restoration of 1660Charles II, Parliament and the succession crisisJames II and the Glorious RevolutionThe Revolution Settlement and party politics
Politics, Protest and Reform in Wales and England c.1780-1880Period study
Topic overviewThe unreformed electoral system and early demands for reformThe French Revolution, British radicalism and repression 1789-1812Radical discontent and Lord Liverpool's governments 1812-1822The Liberal Tory reforms 1822-1830The Reform Act crisis and the Great Reform Act of 1832The Merthyr Rising of 1831Rural protest: the Swing riots and the Rebecca riotsChartism in Wales and EnglandThe motives for social reform and the new Poor LawFactory, mines, public health and education reform 1833-1848Peel, the Anti-Corn Law League and the repeal of the Corn LawsThe Liberal party, Gladstone and Disraeli 1859-1880
Politics, People and Progress: Wales and England c.1880-1980Period study
Topic overviewThe Liberal welfare reforms 1906-1914Economic problems and responses in the 1920s and 1930sThe Labour governments of 1945-1951The changing fortunes of the Liberal PartyThe Conservative Party and coalition governmentThe growth of the Labour PartyThe impact of the Boer War and the First World WarThe social and economic impact of the Second World WarThe changing economy, work and employment 1918-1980The Welsh language, culture and demands for political changeSocial, religious and cultural change 1918-1980The campaign for women's suffrage before 1918Women, the franchise and changing status 1918-1980
Political and Religious Change in Europe c.1500-1598Period study
Topic overviewThe Catholic Church in the early sixteenth centuryExploration, the New World and its impact on EuropeThe growing power of the nation statesRenaissance culture and humanismLuther and the challenge to RomeThe spread of Lutheranism: printing, towns and social pressuresFrom the Schmalkaldic League to the Peace of AugsburgThe Counter-Reformation and the Council of TrentFrancis I and the French monarchyHabsburg-Valois rivalryCharles V and the government of the Holy Roman EmpirePhilip II: finance, government and foreign policySuleiman the Magnificent and Ottoman expansionThe Christian reaction and the battle of Lepanto
Europe in the Age of Absolutism and Revolution c.1682-1815Period study
Topic overviewPeter the Great's reform of government and societyThe Church, the economy and the armed forces under Peter the GreatWesternisation and the building of St PetersburgThe Great Northern War and Peter the Great's foreign policyFrederick the Great's accession and the Prussian inheritanceFrederick the Great's domestic reformsFrederick the Great as an enlightened despotFrance under Louis XV and the ancien régimeThe structure of the French state: crown, finance and ChurchLouis XVI and the causes of the French RevolutionThe Baltic and the Great Powers after the Great Northern WarThe War of the Austrian Succession and the Diplomatic RevolutionThe Seven Years WarThe Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and the balance of power
Revolution and New Ideas in Europe c.1780-1881Period study
Topic overviewThe Napoleonic wars, the Vienna settlement and the Congress SystemThe revolutions of 1830 and 1848The Eastern Question and the Crimean WarItalian nationalism after 1815 and the revolutions of 1848Cavour, Napoleon III and the war of 1859Garibaldi, the Thousand and the completion of Italian unityGerman nationalism, the Zollverein and the revolutions of 1848Bismarck, Prussia and the wars of 1864 and 1866The Franco-Prussian War and the German EmpireNapoleon III: 1848, the coup d'état and the Second EmpireThe policies and collapse of the Second EmpireNicholas I and Russia 1825-1855Alexander II and the emancipation of the serfsThe great reforms and the growth of opposition to 1881
Europe in an Age of Conflict and Co-Operation c.1890-1991Period study
Topic overviewAlliances, ententes and the causes of the First World WarReconciliation and rivalry 1918-1929The League of Nations and the road to the Second World WarLiberal Italy in crisis and the rise of MussoliniFascist Italy: domestic policies, opposition and resistanceThe Weimar Republic and its problems 1918-1933The Nazi seizure and consolidation of powerNazi domestic policies, opposition and resistance to 1945The 1905 revolution and the fall of tsarismThe Bolshevik revolution, civil war and consolidation to 1924Stalin's transformation of the Soviet Union to 1945The post-war division of Europe and the origins of the Cold WarThe drive for European economic co-operation and integrationCo-existence, détente and the end of the Cold War
The Mid Tudor Crisis in Wales and England c.1529-1570Depth study
Topic overviewLawlessness in Wales and the Council in the MarchesThe Acts of Union 1536 and 1543The King's Great Matter and the royal supremacyThomas Cromwell and the dissolution of the monasteriesOpposition to religious change and the Pilgrimage of GraceEdward VI's minority: Somerset, Northumberland and factionThe Edwardian Prayer Books and Acts of UniformityThe rebellions of 1549 and the response of authorityMary Tudor's accession, marriage and the Wyatt rebellionCatholic restoration and persecution under MarySociety, the economy and the Welsh gentry after the Acts of UnionThe Elizabethan Church Settlement and the Welsh ScripturesPuritanism and the Catholic threat to 1570
Royalty, Rebellion and Republic c.1625-1660Depth study
Topic overviewThe legacy of James I and the character of Charles IParliament, war and the Petition of Right 1625-1629The ministers and methods of Personal RuleThe finances of Personal Rule and Ship MoneyLaud, Arminianism and Puritan oppositionScotland, the Bishops' Wars and the recall of ParliamentThe Long Parliament and the attack on Personal RuleIreland, the Grand Remonstrance and the outbreak of warWales and the Welsh in the Civil WarLeadership, the New Model Army and the defeat of the KingThe failure of settlement, the Second Civil War and the regicideRadicalism, religious dissent and the reaction in WalesThe republic, the Protectorate and the rule of the Major-GeneralsThe collapse of the republic and the Restoration
Reform and Protest in Wales and England c.1783-1848Depth study
Topic overviewPitt, the French Revolution and the corresponding societiesPopular protest from Luddism to PeterlooLord Liverpool's government and the Six ActsThe Liberal Tory reforms 1822-1830The unreformed electoral system and the pressure for reformThe Merthyr rising, Captain Swing and the Reform Bill crisisThe Great Reform Act of 1832The Whig reforms 1833-1841The New Poor Law and the opposition to itChartism in Wales and EnglandThe Rebecca riots and rural WalesPeel, the Conservative party and the repeal of the Corn LawsSocial reform, Shaftesbury and public health
Politics and Society in Wales and England c.1900-1939Depth study
Topic overviewPopulation change and the surveys of Booth and RowntreeConservative government to 1905 and the 1906 electionThe Liberal welfare reforms 1906-1914The People's Budget and the Parliament Act 1911Heavy industry, agriculture and the Welsh economy before 1914Industrial unrest in Wales: the Penrhyn lockout, Tonypandy and LlanelliTrade unions and the rise of the Labour PartyWomen, the vote and war workReligion, education and Welsh cultureWales and the Great War: voluntarism, conscription and the home frontIndustrial decline, the coal disputes and the General Strike of 1926The Depression in Wales: unemployment, migration and government responsePolitics between the wars: from the Lloyd George coalition to the National GovernmentSociety, leisure and popular culture between the wars
The Religious Reformation in Europe c.1500-1564Depth study
Topic overviewThe Church in Europe in 1500: power, wealth and daily lifeCriticism of the Church: anticlericalism, heresy and the humanistsIndulgences, Tetzel and the Ninety-Five ThesesFrom Leipzig to Worms: Luther's break with RomeThe development of Lutheran doctrineThe Knights' Revolt and the Peasants' WarZwingli, the radicals and division among the reformersPrinting, princes and cities: the spread of LutheranismThe Augsburg Confession and the Schmalkaldic LeagueCharles V, the Schmalkaldic War and the Peace of AugsburgAnabaptism and the Münster rebellionJohn Calvin, Geneva and the spread of CalvinismThe Catholic revival: Paul III, the Inquisition and the Council of TrentLoyola, the Jesuits and the reforming orders
France in Revolution c.1774-1815Depth study
Topic overviewThe three estates: privilege and burden under the Ancien RégimeGovernment, finance and the ideas of the philosophesTurgot, Necker and Calonne: the failure of reformThe Assembly of Notables, the cahiers and the Estates General1789: the National Assembly, the Bastille and the Great FearThe October Days and the reforms of the National AssemblyThe Church, refractory priests and the Constitution of 1791Varennes, the Legislative Assembly and the coming of warThe fall of the monarchy and the September MassacresThe Convention, the execution of Louis and the VendéeThe Terror: government, Robespierre and the factionsThermidor, the Directory and the rise of BonaparteNapoleon's reforms as Consul and EmperorWar, the Continental System and the fall of Napoleon
The Crisis of the American Republic c.1840-1877Depth study
Topic overviewNorth and South: two societies by 1840The institution of slavery in the SouthManifest Destiny, the Mexican War and the Wilmot ProvisoThe Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave LawAbolitionism: Garrison, Stowe and John BrownThe Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding KansasThe Republican party and the Dred Scott decisionLincoln and the Lincoln-Douglas debatesHarpers Ferry, the election of 1860 and secessionThe resources, commanders and strategy of North and SouthCampaigns, the home fronts and the defeat of the SouthLincoln's war presidency and emancipationJohnson, Congress and the Reconstruction amendmentsRadical Reconstruction, the Klan and Redemption
Germany: Democracy and Dictatorship c.1918-1945Depth study
Topic overviewThe revolution of 1918 and the Weimar ConstitutionThe Treaty of Versailles and its impact on GermanyThe Spartacists, the Kapp Putsch and the threats to the republicReparations, the Ruhr and the hyperinflation of 1923The early Nazi party and the Munich PutschStresemann, the Dawes and Young Plans and LocarnoThe Nazi party 1924-1932 and the growth of its supportThe Depression and the collapse of parliamentary governmentHitler's consolidation of power 1933-1934Propaganda, terror and the extent of Nazi controlNazi racial policy and the persecution of the JewsYoung people, women, workers and the churches under the NazisThe Nazi economy: recovery, rearmament and total warNazi foreign policy and the Second World War
Wales: Resistance, Conquest and Rebellion c.1240-1415Breadth study
Topic overviewWelsh law and the legal system of the princesSociety, the rural economy and the Church before 1282The princes of Gwynedd and the road to 1282The Edwardian conquest and settlementResistance and rebellion 1294 to 1345The Black Death and economic change in WalesOwain Glyndŵr and the revolt of 1400Change and continuity in Wales 1240 to 1415
Poverty, Protest and Rebellion in Wales and England c.1485-1603Breadth study
Topic overviewPopulation, inflation and the growth of povertyEnclosure and the consolidation of estatesCharity, the towns and local schemes for reliefThe Church, the monasteries and the merchant classesVagrancy, the sturdy beggar and punishmentGovernment legislation from 1495 to the Poor Law of 1601Change and continuity in the treatment of povertyHenry VII, Lambert Simnel and Perkin WarbeckWales, Rhys ap Gruffydd and the marcher lordshipsThe Henrician religious changes and the Pilgrimage of GraceThe Western Rebellion and Kett's rebellionLady Jane Grey and Wyatt's rebellionMary Queen of Scots, the northern earls and the plots against ElizabethThe Essex rebellion and the changing pattern of rebellion
Reformation and Discovery: Europe c.1492-1610Breadth study
Topic overviewThe condition of the Catholic Church around 1500Luther and the challenge to RomeThe early reaction of the Catholic ChurchThe spread of the Reformation in the 1520s and 1530sZwingli, Calvin and the Reformed traditionThe Council of Trent and the Counter-ReformationReligious war and schism in France, the Netherlands and central EuropeChange and continuity in European religion 1500 to 1600Motives for exploration and the role of monarchsThe early explorers: Columbus, da Gama, Cabot and MagellanSpain, Portugal, England and the Netherlands overseasThe Spanish Main, colonisation and indigenous peoplesMerchants, science and the changing world 1492 to 1610
Royalty, Revolution and Restoration in Wales and England c.1603-1715Breadth study
Topic overviewMonarchy, government and the Welsh gentry in 1603James I, divine right and ParliamentCharles I, the Petition of Right and the Personal RuleThe road to war 1640 to 1642Wales and England at war 1642 to 1649The republic and the failure of the Commonwealth 1649 to 1660The Restoration monarchy 1660 to 1688The Glorious Revolution and the Revolutionary SettlementThe growth of party politics after 1689Anglicanism, Laudianism and the restored ChurchPuritanism and dissent in WalesThe sects, the Levellers and the DiggersHobbes, Locke and the scientific revolutionChange and continuity 1603 to 1715
France: Ancien Régime to Napoleon c.1715-1815Breadth study
Topic overviewThe three estates and the structure of French societyAbsolutism, Versailles and the machinery of the stateTaxation, finance and the fiscal crisisThe Enlightenment and the challenge to authorityFrom monarchy to republic 1789 to 1792Terror, the sans-culottes and the DirectoryNapoleon: power, administration and the ConcordatSociety, economy and the balance sheet of the period
Parliamentary Reform and Protest in Wales and England c.1780-1885Breadth study
Topic overviewThe unreformed parliamentary systemEarly reform, the Younger Pitt and the French RevolutionThe London Corresponding Society and Pitt's repressionIndustrialisation, rural change and the LudditesPopular protest and repression 1815 to 1822The Reform Bill crisis 1830 to 1832The terms and impact of the 1832 Reform ActThe Merthyr rising of 1831Swing, rural protest and the Rebecca riotsThe aims and leaders of ChartismChartist action, Newport and the failure of the movementTrade unionism from Robert Owen to the new model unionsPublic order, radical revival and the Second Reform ActParliamentary reform 1872 to 1885 and change across the period
Social Change and Reform in Wales and England c.1890-1990Breadth study
Topic overviewEducation from the Welsh Intermediate Act to 1944The working classes, poverty and the Liberal reforms c.1890-1914Housing, health and welfare before 1939The Depression in Wales and the National GovernmentBeveridge, the welfare state and the 1945 governmentAffluence, poverty and unemployment 1951 to 1979The Thatcher years 1979 to 1990Women, the family and social changeConsumer society, leisure and popular culture
The American Century c.1890-1990Breadth study
Topic overviewJim Crow and the erosion of Black freedomCivil rights from the New Deal to TrumanBrown, Montgomery and non-violent protestKing, Washington and the civil rights actsBlack Power, the riots and the aftermathCivil rights after 1968 and the new SouthAmerican imperialism and the road to world powerIsolationism, the Second World War and the Cold WarDétente, Reagan and the end of the Cold War
Changing Leadership and Society in Germany c.1871-1989Breadth study
Topic overviewThe Bismarckian state and the imperial constitutionBismarck, the parties and the KulturkampfWilhelmine Germany and the appeal of social democracyWar, revolution and the Weimar RepublicWeimar recovery, society and cultureThe Nazi political systemNazi economy and societyThe two Germanies and reunificationChange and continuity in Germany 1871 to 1989
Changing Leadership and Society in Russia c.1881-1989Breadth study
Topic overviewAlexander III and political reactionOpposition to Tsarism before 1914The 1905 Revolution and the Duma1917: from February to OctoberConsolidating the Bolshevik revolution to 1924Stalin's rise and the nature of Soviet governmentThe planned economy: collectivisation and the Five Year PlansRussia and its people before 1914Khrushchev, de-Stalinisation and reformBrezhnev, Andropov and stagnationGorbachev, glasnost and perestroikaChange and continuity in Russia 1881 to 1989
Social Change and Reform in Wales and England c.1890-1990
- 9 subtopics
- 27 things to know
- A2 Unit 3
- Unit 3, one breadth study of ten
What Social Change and Reform in Wales and England c.1890-1990 covers
Social Change and Reform in Wales and England c.1890-1990 is examined in Unit 3, the breadth study — one of ten options, of which a student takes one. It covers education from the Welsh Intermediate Act to 1944, housing, health and welfare before 1939, the Depression in Wales and the National Government, Beveridge, the welfare state and the 1945 government, Affluence, poverty and unemployment 1951 to 1979, the Thatcher years 1979 to 1990, women, the family and social change and consumer society, leisure and popular culture.
The 9 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Education from the Welsh Intermediate Act to 1944Central Welsh Board and tripartite system.Open →
- The working classes, poverty and the Liberal reforms c.1890-1914The condition of the working classes around 1890 and its regional variation, causes of unemployment before 1914, self-help, Booth's and Rowntree's surveys, and the Liberal reforms from school meals to National Insurance.Open →
- Housing, health and welfare before 1939Two further interwar housing acts and means test.Open →
- The Depression in Wales and the National GovernmentPost-war slump, scale of out-migration from Wales between the wars and distressed area.Open →
- Beveridge, the welfare state and the 1945 governmentBeveridge Report, five giants Beveridge identified and three founding principles of the NHS.Open →
- Affluence, poverty and unemployment 1951 to 1979Rediscovery of poverty, relative poverty and child Poverty Action Group.Open →
- The Thatcher years 1979 to 1990Right to Buy and poll tax.Open →
- Women, the family and social changeMarriage bar and women's liberation movement.Open →
- Consumer society, leisure and popular cultureConsumer society, hire purchase and notting Hill riots.Open →
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Why did the miners' strike end in defeat?
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What did the Sex Discrimination Act of 1975 do?
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Assess the pace of social change across the century.
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What did the Welsh Intermediate Education Act do, and in what year?
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What did the 1919 Housing Act promise, and what is it usually called?
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What was the Beveridge Report, and when was it published?
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Give three signs of rising living standards in the 1950s and 1960s.
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What was the Central Welsh Board?
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Why did the Addison programme fall short?
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Give two social effects of mass unemployment on Welsh communities.
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Name the five giants Beveridge identified.
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What was the rediscovery of poverty?
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What economic doctrine shaped the Thatcher governments?
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How did the Second World War change women's employment?
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What is meant by the consumer society?
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What did the Education Act of 1918 do?
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How did working-class life vary between regions around 1890?
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What did Booth and Rowntree find about poverty?
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What did Rowntree mean by primary and secondary poverty?
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Name two further interwar housing acts.
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What was a distressed area, and name a Welsh example.
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What three assumptions underlay the Beveridge plan?
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Define relative poverty.
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What happened to the Welsh steel industry in this period?
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What happened to most women's employment after 1945?
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Give three consumer goods that spread rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s.
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1902 Education Act vs 1944 Education Act
1902 Education Act: the measure that abolished the school boards, made county and county borough councils the local authorities, and gave rate support to church schools. 1944 Education Act: The Butler measure that created free compulsory secondary schooling for all, raised the leaving age to fifteen and set up the tripartite system.
National Insurance vs National Assistance
National Insurance: a contributory scheme paying benefit as of right to those who have made their weekly payments, covering unemployment, sickness, maternity, retirement and death. National Assistance: A means-tested payment out of taxation for those the contributory scheme does not reach, which replaced the Poor Law in 1948.
Absolute poverty vs Relative poverty
Absolute poverty: want measured against a fixed subsistence line, the minimum income needed for food, clothing and shelter. Relative poverty: Want measured against the prevailing standard of living in a society, so that the line rises as that society grows richer.
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What did the Welsh Intermediate Education Act do, and in what year?
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Passed in 1889, it allowed Welsh county councils to levy a rate to fund intermediate, or secondary, schools.
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Why was the Welsh Intermediate Education Act significant?
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It gave Wales a publicly funded secondary system a decade before England had one, and it opened grammar school education to children of modest means.
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What was the Central Welsh Board?
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The body established in 1896 to inspect and examine the new Welsh intermediate schools.
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What did the Education Act of 1902 establish?
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It abolished the school boards and made county and county borough councils the local education authorities, with rate support for church schools.
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What was the Welsh Revolt against the 1902 Act?
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The refusal of many Welsh county councils, led by Lloyd George, to fund Anglican church schools out of the rates in a largely Nonconformist country.
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What did the 1906 Act provide?
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It permitted local authorities to provide school meals for necessitous children.
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- What does Social Change and Reform in Wales and England c.1890-1990 cover in WJEC A-Level History?
- 9 subtopics: education from the welsh intermediate act to 1944, the working classes, poverty and the liberal reforms c.1890-1914, housing, health and welfare before 1939, the depression in wales and the national government, beveridge, the welfare state and the 1945 government, affluence, poverty and unemployment 1951 to 1979, the thatcher years 1979 to 1990, women, the family and social change and consumer society, leisure and popular culture. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
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