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OCR GCSE History A J410
Castles: Form and Function c.1000–1750Historic environment
Topic overviewThe location of Kenilworth CastleThe appearance and layout of Kenilworth Castle at different times in its historyThe day-to-day functions of Kenilworth CastleThe evidence historians use for a castle’s changing functionLife in Kenilworth Castle at different times in its historyKey events associated with Kenilworth Castle at different times in its history
China 1950–1981: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewEarly purges, the Hundred Flowers and social policy in the 1950sLand reform, collectivisation, the First Five Year Plan and the Great Leap ForwardCauses and impact of the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards and TibetThe nature of Communist propaganda and its impactCommunism in China after the death of Mao 1976–1981The Communist state and the Chinese people
Germany 1925–1955: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewThe Weimar Republic 1925–1928 and the impact of the DepressionRising support for Nazis 1929–1933The Nazi consolidation of power 1933–1934The Nazi terror state, propaganda and the people's communityNazi economic and social policy, and the lack of effective oppositionReaction to war, changing fortunes and the home front 1939–1945Racial persecution, the Holocaust and opposition during the warDefeat, occupation and the two Germanys 1945–1955The state and the German people, 1925–1955
International Relations: The Changing International Order 1918–1975
Topic overviewThe Versailles settlement, the League and the agreements of the 1920sThe Depression, the failure of the League and the road to warSoviet actions in Eastern Europe and the Western response, 1945–48NATO, the Warsaw Pact, the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile CrisisOrigins of US involvement in Vietnam and the tactics of the warUS withdrawal from Vietnam, opposition at home and the end of the warChanging interpretations of AppeasementChanging interpretations of the responsibility for the Cold WarThe big ideas behind the twentieth-century international order
Migration to Britain c.1000 to c.2010Thematic study
Topic overviewDiversity before 1066, and the impact of the Norman ConquestJews in medieval England: treatment, integration and expulsionResident aliens in later medieval EnglandAfricans in sixteenth-century England, the East India Company and Britain’s black communitiesThe readmission of Jews in 1656, and Protestant refugeesIndustrial-age migration: the Irish, Eastern European Jews, abolition and ChartismNaturalisation, port communities and immigration law 1870–1948Attitudes towards Jews in the 1930s and migrants in the two world warsThe impact of post-war migration on BritainImmigration as a political issue c.1990–c.2010The big questions about migration to Britain
Personal Rule to Restoration 1629–1660British depth
Topic overviewRelationship between Parliament and Charles I 1629–1642Attempts at settlement, the radical groups and the Army 1646–1649The execution of Charles I 1649The Rump, Cromwell and the Protectorate 1649–1658Attempts to reach a settlement September 1658 – April 1660The tensions that led to war, and the changes that followed
Power: Monarchy and Democracy in Britain c.1000 to 2014Thematic study
Topic overviewAnglo-Saxon kingship, 1066 and the Norman monarchyMagna Carta and the emergence of ParliamentRichard II’s deposition and the Wars of the RosesTudor government, personal rule and the Civil WarsThe Restoration, 1688 and the Bill of RightsThe rise of political parties and a parliamentary monarchyParliament and the people, c.1800–c.1918: reform and the unionsVotes for women, and the state in war and peaceChallenges to Parliament since 1980Claiming, keeping and losing power
South Africa 1960–1994: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewConsolidating apartheid in the 1960s: the Bantustans, state control and SharpevilleReasons for, methods of and impact of different types of resistanceThe further development of resistanceThe Anti-Apartheid Movement and the regime's response in the 1970sGrowing pressure on the regimeThe State of Emergency and the failure of total strategy 1985–1990Negotiations between the government and the ANCThe state and the South African people, 1960–1994
The English Reformation c.1520–c.1550British depth
Topic overviewThe church in England c.1520 and its criticsPopular attitudes to reform, the annulment and the Reformation ParliamentCromwell, the Valor Ecclesiasticus and the dissolution of the monasteriesImmediate reactions to Dissolution including supportResistance and protestDevelopment and changes in religious policy under Henry VIII and Edward VIEnforcing the new religious policies and the Prayer Book Rebellion 1549The English Church before and after the Reformation
The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688–c.1730British depth
Topic overviewThe Glorious Revolution, the Hanoverian succession and the British IslesDarien, the Act of Union, the 1715 rising and emigration to the AmericasEconomic impact of war and imperial expansionThe Treaty of Utrecht, the South Sea Bubble and the slave-based colonial economyConsumerism, the slave-trading ports and the coffee housesIdeas of racial hierarchy, and opposition and resistance to slaveryWhat empire did to Britain and the British Isles
The USA 1919–1948: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewThe US economy and women in the ‘Roaring Twenties’Prohibition, the Red Scare and immigration restrictionsJim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan and attempts to combat prejudiceEconomic and social effects of the Great Depression and government responseThe Second New DealThe mobilisation of the US people for the war effortSocial impact of the warThe Detroit Race Riots 1943 and segregation in the armed forcesThe state and the American people, 1919–1948
The USA 1945–1974: The People and the StateDepth study
Topic overviewFears of Communism at home, the Red Scare and McCarthyismJim Crow and the development and achievements of the civil rights movementOpposition to civil rights and the role of the Supreme Court and EisenhowerThe roles of Kennedy and Johnson in civil rights campaignsBlack Power, radical leaders, and Native American and Chicano campaignsThe impact of feminismStonewall, anti-war protest and the Great SocietyThe state and the American people, 1945–1974
Urban Environments: Patterns of MigrationHistoric environment
Topic overviewWhen immigrant groups arrived, why and from whereSpitalfields: who came, when and whyWhere immigrants settled and how they were receivedSettling in Spitalfields, and how newcomers were receivedThe experiences of immigrantsWork, housing and faith in SpitalfieldsKey events in local migration historyAltab Ali, Brick Lane 1978 and other key events in SpitalfieldsThe impact of migration on the areaSpitalfields today: impact and the multicultural communityReading an urban site for its migration historyReading the buildings, maps and records of Spitalfields
War and British Society c.790 to c.2010Thematic study
Topic overviewViking raids and the Norman ConquestThe feudal system and feudal military serviceWar in medieval society, c.1290–c.1450Elizabeth I’s wars with Spain, and English privateersBorder warfare, the Civil Wars and the Jacobite risingsImperial wars of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuriesThe Crimean War and the Boer WarsThe two world wars and the Cold WarThe IRA campaigns and conflict since 1945What war did to British people and their rulers
The English Reformation c.1520–c.1550
- 8 subtopics
- 24 things to know
- Paper 3
- Paper 3, the British depth study tied to the thematic study
What The English Reformation c.1520–c.1550 covers
The English Reformation c.1520–c.1550 is examined in Paper 3, British depth study with a study of the historic environment. It covers the church in England c.1520 and its critics; popular attitudes to reform, the annulment and the Reformation Parliament; Cromwell, the Valor Ecclesiasticus and the dissolution of the monasteries; immediate reactions to Dissolution including support; resistance and protest; development and changes in religious policy under Henry VIII and Edward VI; enforcing the new religious policies and the Prayer Book Rebellion 1549; and the English Church before and after the Reformation.
Where it is assessed
Paper 3
British depth study tied to the thematic study; 25% of the GCSE with the historic environment.
Check the OCR specification ↗The 8 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- The church in England c.1520 and its criticsThe church's wealth and its churchmen in government, papal authority, the Latin mass and purgatory, parish guilds and lay involvement, the Lollards, Luther's teaching and its arrival in England, the Supplication against the Ordinaries and complaints against the clergy.Open →
- Popular attitudes to reform, the annulment and the Reformation ParliamentWhat wills and churchwardens' accounts show, where reform was strongest, anticlericalism, Henry VIII's case against his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, the Pope's refusal, Anne Boleyn, and the Acts of Appeals, Supremacy and Succession.Open →
- Cromwell, the Valor Ecclesiasticus and the dissolution of the monasteriesCromwell as Vicegerent in Spirituals, the Valor Ecclesiasticus and why the Crown wanted it, the Visitation of the Monasteries and its reports, the Court of Augmentations, the stripping of closed houses, and the Suppression Acts of 1536 and 1539.Open →
- Immediate reactions to Dissolution including supportWho bought the monastic estates, the reformers' case for closure, opposition in the north, the closures by 1540, the friars, the loss of charity and other services, new landlords, the libraries and the ruined abbeys.Open →
- Resistance and protestThe Lincolnshire Rising, its grievances and collapse, Robert Aske and the Pilgrimage of Grace, the Five Wounds banner, the size of the host, the Pontefract Articles, Norfolk's promise and the executions after Bigod's rising.Open →
- Development and changes in religious policy under Henry VIII and Edward VIThe Ten and Six Articles, the Protestant turn under Edward VI, the Chantries Act, Tyndale and the Great Bible, the Prayer Book and Act of Uniformity, the communion table, the priests' oath and clerical marriage.Open →
- Enforcing the new religious policies and the Prayer Book Rebellion 1549Royal injunctions and parish registers, bishops and churchwardens as enforcers, slow obedience and hidden images, falling gifts under Edward VI, the regions that took to change, and the Prayer Book Rebellion in Devon and Cornwall, its demands and its defeat.Open →
- The English Church before and after the ReformationThe mass in 1520, what had gone by 1550, Pope to Crown, Latin to English, why Henry VIII's church was not Protestant, gainers and losers, the church interior of 1550, rebellion and Parliament.Open →
What you need to know
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What did the northern risings of 1536 complain of, who led the Pilgrimage of Grace, and what did the pilgrims demand?
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How had the English church changed between 1520 and 1550 in worship, government, language and wealth?
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Why were leading churchmen powerful in government as well as in religion?
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Who stood at the head of the church in England in 1520?
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What is meant by anticlericalism?
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Whom had Henry VIII married in 1509, and why did he want that marriage ended?
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What office made Thomas Cromwell the king’s deputy over the whole English church?
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Which people gained most from the sale of the monastic estates?
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Why did some people welcome the closures on religious grounds?
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What grievances did the Lincolnshire rebels set out?
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What were the Ten Articles of 1536?
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What was the Great Bible of 1539?
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What were royal injunctions?
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What record was every parish ordered to keep from 1538?
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Name three features of parish religion present in 1520 that had gone by 1550.
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In what language was the mass said before the Reformation, and what did that mean for worshippers?
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Why did Henry VIII's wish to end his marriage to Catherine of Aragon become urgent at the end of 1532?
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What was the Valor Ecclesiasticus?
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How many religious houses remained in England by 1540?
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Who led the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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What happened to the images and wall paintings in parish churches?
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Who saw to it that the new orders were obeyed in the parishes?
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How did the government of the English church change between 1520 and 1550?
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Act of Supremacy vs Act of Succession
Act of Supremacy: 1534 law making the king Supreme Head of the Church of England. Act of Succession: 1534 law requiring an oath recognising Anne Boleyn's children as heirs.
Ten Articles vs Six Articles
Ten Articles: 1536 statement of doctrine naming only three sacraments and leaning towards reform. Six Articles: 1539 law reasserting transubstantiation and clerical celibacy on pain of death.
Valor Ecclesiasticus vs Visitation of the Monasteries
Valor Ecclesiasticus: 1535 survey valuing the income of every religious house, bishopric and parish. Visitation of the Monasteries: tour of the religious houses by Layton and Legh in 1535–36 reporting vice.
Questions from this topic
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Where did the English church get its wealth in the years before the Reformation?
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From its huge landholdings, from the tithe paid by every household, and from fees and gifts for burials, masses and other services.
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Why were leading churchmen powerful in government as well as in religion?
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Bishops and abbots sat in the House of Lords, and Cardinal Wolsey held the office of Lord Chancellor as well as being a papal legate.
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Who stood at the head of the church in England in 1520?
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The Pope in Rome, whose spiritual authority was recognised as standing above the king’s.
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In what language was the mass said before the Reformation, and what did that mean for worshippers?
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Latin, so almost no ordinary parishioner understood the words and the priest performed the service on their behalf.
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What was purgatory, and how did belief in it shape everyday religion?
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A place where souls were purified before reaching heaven, so people paid for masses, candles and prayers to shorten a soul’s time there.
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Name two ways ordinary parishioners took an active part in the life of their church.
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Through parish guilds and fund-raising ales that paid for lights, images and repairs, and through pilgrimage to shrines such as Walsingham and Canterbury.
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- What does The English Reformation c.1520–c.1550 cover in OCR GCSE History A?
- 8 subtopics: the church in england c.1520 and its critics, popular attitudes to reform, the annulment and the reformation parliament, cromwell, the valor ecclesiasticus and the dissolution of the monasteries, immediate reactions to dissolution including support, resistance and protest, development and changes in religious policy under henry viii and edward vi, enforcing the new religious policies and the prayer book rebellion 1549 and the english church before and after the reformation. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is The English Reformation c.1520–c.1550 organised?
- By the OCR J410 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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