Migration, Empires and the People in Britain, c790 to the Present Day

What Migration, Empires and the People in Britain, c790 to the Present Day covers

Migration, Empires and the People in Britain, c790 to the Present Day is examined in Paper 2, Shaping the nation. It covers the factors that shape this study, invasion: the Vikings, the Danelaw and the North Sea Empire, A Norman Kingdom and ‘Angevin’ Empire, the birth of English identity, sugar and the Caribbean, Colonisation in North America, migrants to and from Britain, expansion in India, expansion in Africa, migrants to, from and within Britain, the end of Empire, the legacy of Empire and Britain’s relationship with Europe and its impact.

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• The factors that shape this studyHow war, religion, government, economics, technology, ideas about race and civilisation, and individuals have driven the movement of peoples into and out of Britain and the growth and end of its empire.Open →
• Invasion: the Vikings, the Danelaw and the North Sea EmpireWho the Vikings were and why they raided, the longship, the Anglo-Saxons, the Danelaw and its legacy, Alfred's victory at Edington and his burhs, Cnut's North Sea Empire, and the marriages of Emma of Normandy.Open →
• A Norman Kingdom and ‘Angevin’ EmpireWhat 1066 changed between England and France, Henry II's lands and how he gained them, his expedition to Ireland, French as the ruling language, John's losses, Bouvines, and how the nobility became English.Open →
• The birth of English identityThe Hundred Years' War, Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, the longbow, Joan of Arc, the end at Castillon, how the war sharpened Englishness, English replacing French, Parliament's gains, and what defeat left behind.Open →
• Sugar and the CaribbeanElizabethan privateers and John Hawkins, the triangular trade and the Middle Passage, sugar on Barbados, Jamaica and the other islands, life and resistance on the sugar estates, the ports and families that grew rich from the trade, and how sugar changed daily life in Britain.Open →
• Colonisation in North AmericaWhy England wanted colonies, Raleigh and Roanoke, Jamestown and its starving time, tobacco, the Pilgrim Fathers, colonial goods, indentured servants, relations with native peoples, why the colonists rebelled, and what losing them meant.Open →
• Migrants to and from BritainThe Huguenots who fled France after 1685 and the skills they brought, the Highland clearances and what became of the evicted families, the Ulster plantations and the division they left in Ireland, and what these three movements of people had in common.Open →
• Expansion in IndiaThe East India Company and its cargoes, Clive at Plassey, why Bengal mattered, Warren Hastings, the sepoys and the rebellion of 1857, crown rule, what British rule built and harmed, and what India gave Britain.Open →
• Expansion in AfricaEarly trade and missionaries such as David Livingstone, the occupation of Egypt and the Suez Canal, the Scramble for Africa and the Berlin Conference, Cecil Rhodes and his Cape to Cairo ambition, the Boer War and its concentration camps, and how empire was sold to the public at home.Open →
• Migrants to, from and within BritainThe Irish after the Famine, the hostility they met, Jewish refugees from the 1880s, transportation and the Tolpuddle Martyrs, emigration to the colonies, Asian settlement in East Africa, and the move from countryside to town.Open →
• The end of EmpireHow the two world wars loosened Britain's grip, the Amritsar massacre, Gandhi's civil disobedience and the Salt March, Indian independence and partition in 1947, the Suez Crisis, Nkrumah and Ghana, the Mau Mau rebellion and Kenyan independence, and Macmillan's wind of change.Open →
• The legacy of EmpireThe Empire Windrush and Caribbean migration, the work migrants found and the hostility they met, Claudia Jones and the Notting Hill Carnival, South Asian settlement and the Ugandan Asians of 1972, the Commonwealth, the Falklands War, and Britain as a multicultural society.Open →
• Britain’s relationship with Europe and its impactBritain's standing after 1945, Polish settlers, staying out of the European Economic Community and joining, membership and trade, the Cold War's end, migration after 2004, continental influences, and the argument behind the 2016 referendum.Open →

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Commonly confused

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• Danelaw vs North Sea Empire

  Danelaw: northern and eastern England where Scandinavian settlers lived under their own law and custom. North Sea Empire: joint realm of England, Denmark and Norway held by Cnut.

• Huguenots vs Pilgrim Fathers

  Huguenots: French Protestants who fled to Britain after Louis XIV cancelled the Edict of Nantes. Pilgrim Fathers: English Separatists who sailed in the Mayflower in 1620 to found Plymouth.

• Privateer vs Pirate

  Privateer: captain licensed by his own government to attack enemy shipping. Pirate: robber at sea acting for himself and an outlaw to everyone.

Questions from this topic

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1. 1

   How has fighting brought new peoples into Britain across this study?

   Model answer

   Armies that invaded and won often stayed: Scandinavian raiders and then the Normans settled the land they had taken, so conquest itself moved whole populations into Britain.

2. 2

   In what way did warfare help Britain build an empire overseas?

   Model answer

   Victories over rival European powers, above all France, handed Britain colonies and trading posts, and force was used to take and hold territory in India, Africa and the Caribbean.

3. 3

   How did fighting two world wars help bring British rule overseas to an end?

   Model answer

   Both wars drained Britain’s money and manpower, and colonial peoples who had fought and paid for them expected self-government in return.

4. 4

   Why has faith been a reason for people to move to Britain?

   Model answer

   Britain offered refuge to Protestants persecuted on the continent, and later to Jewish families fleeing violence in eastern Europe, because they could worship there in safety.

5. 5

   How did Christian missionary work help extend British influence overseas?

   Model answer

   Missionaries went out ahead of officials, founding stations, schools and clinics in Africa and Asia, and their reports and appeals pulled British trade and government in behind them.

6. 6

   How did difference of religion shape British rule in Ireland?

   Model answer

   Protestant settlers were planted on land taken from Catholic landowners, so rule and landholding fell along a religious line that has divided Ireland ever since.

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What does Migration, Empires and the People in Britain, c790 to the Present Day cover in AQA GCSE History?

13 subtopics: the factors that shape this study, invasion: the vikings, the danelaw and the north sea empire, a norman kingdom and ‘angevin’ empire, the birth of english identity, sugar and the caribbean, colonisation in north america, migrants to and from britain, expansion in india, expansion in africa, migrants to, from and within britain, the end of empire, the legacy of empire and britain’s relationship with europe and its impact. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.

How is Migration, Empires and the People in Britain, c790 to the Present Day organised?

By the AQA 8145 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.