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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 Impact of Empire on Britain 1688–c.1730
- 7 subtopics
- 21 things to know
- Paper 3
- Paper 3, the British depth study tied to the thematic study
What The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688–c.1730 covers
The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688–c.1730 is examined in Paper 3, British depth study with a study of the historic environment. It covers the Glorious Revolution, the Hanoverian succession and the British Isles; Darien, the Act of Union, the 1715 rising and emigration to the Americas; the economic impact of war and imperial expansion; the Treaty of Utrecht, the South Sea Bubble and the slave-based colonial economy; consumerism, the slave-trading ports and the coffee houses; ideas of racial hierarchy, and opposition and resistance to slavery; and what empire did to Britain and the British Isles.
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 7 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- The Glorious Revolution, the Hanoverian succession and the British IslesWilliam and Mary, James II in Ireland, the siege of Derry, the Boyne and Aughrim, Limerick and the penal laws, the Act of Settlement, the Claim of Right, Killiecrankie, the Jacobites and the Glencoe massacre.Open →
- Darien, the Act of Union, the 1715 rising and emigration to the AmericasThe Darien Scheme, its failure and cost, the Act of Union and what Scotland kept, the Earl of Mar's rising of 1715, its grievances and end, and voluntary emigration and forced transportation to the American colonies.Open →
- Economic impact of war and imperial expansionThe two wars with France and their cost, the navy, why Parliament mattered, the Bank of England, East India Company goods from India and China, Kolkata, the Calico Acts and the African trade opened.Open →
- The Treaty of Utrecht, the South Sea Bubble and the slave-based colonial economyThe settlement of the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain's gains and the Asiento, the South Sea Company and the crash of 1720, what the colonies sent to Britain, the Navigation Acts, sugar and enslaved labour, the Middle Passage and the slave codes.Open →
- Consumerism, the slave-trading ports and the coffee housesNew goods in ordinary households, sugar, shops and customs revenue, merchants' country houses, the West India lobby, London, Bristol and Liverpool as slaving ports, smaller ports and investors ashore, and coffee houses, Lloyd's and the press after 1695.Open →
- Ideas of racial hierarchy, and opposition and resistance to slaveryClaims of African inferiority, Britain's settled minority communities, baptism and the courts, daily life for Black people in Britain, the Quakers' early protest, and resistance on the slave ships, by the Maroons of Jamaica and on the plantations.Open →
- What empire did to Britain and the British IslesPorts and manufacturing towns, winners and losers, where profit and suffering fell, the debt, taxes and navy, Protestant Ireland, Scotland's losses and gains, the Jacobite danger, emigration, Britain's standing in 1713 and a British empire.Open →
What you need to know
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Who was sent across the Atlantic against their will?
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Why did Black servants in Britain seek baptism, and what did the courts say?
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Where did James II land in Ireland in March 1689, and who was paying for the attempt?
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What was the Darien Scheme?
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Which two long wars did Britain fight against France between 1688 and 1713?
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What did the wars do to the navy and the trades that supplied it?
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Which war did the Treaty of Utrecht end, and how was the Spanish crown settled?
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What did Britain gain by the treaty of 1713?
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Which new goods came within reach of ordinary British households in this period?
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Why did the amount of sugar eaten in Britain rise so fast?
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Which settled minority communities were living in Britain by the early eighteenth century?
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How did colonial trade change Britain's ports and manufacturing towns?
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Who in Britain gained most from imperial expansion, and who gained least?
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What was settled by the Battle of the Boyne on 1 July 1690?
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Why did the colony at Darien fail?
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Who proposed the Bank of England?
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What happened when the South Sea Company scheme collapsed in 1720?
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How did shopping change in British towns?
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How did captives resist on the slave ships?
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Why did the profits and the suffering of empire fall in different places?
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Battle of the Boyne vs Battle of Aughrim
Battle of the Boyne: William III's victory of July 1690 that sent James II back to France. Battle of Aughrim: July 1691 defeat destroying the main Jacobite army in Ireland.
Darien Scheme vs South Sea Company
Darien Scheme: Scotland's failed attempt from 1698 to plant a trading colony in Panama. South Sea Company: 1719 plan to take over the national debt whose shares collapsed in 1720.
Asiento vs Navigation Acts
Asiento: thirty-year contract to supply enslaved Africans to Spain's American colonies. Navigation Acts: laws requiring colonial goods to travel in British ships through British ports.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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Who took the English throne in place of James II after the Glorious Revolution of 1688?
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His Protestant daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband William of Orange, who ruled together as William III and Mary II.
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Where did James II land in Ireland in March 1689, and who was paying for the attempt?
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He landed at Kinsale, backed by the money, ships and officers of Louis XIV of France.
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What happened at Derry between December 1688 and the summer of 1689?
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Apprentice boys shut the gates against a Jacobite regiment and the city held out under siege until the relief ship Mountjoy broke the boom across the Foyle.
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What was settled by the Battle of the Boyne on 1 July 1690?
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William III beat James II's army in open battle, and James left Ireland for France within days rather than fight on.
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Which battle in July 1691 destroyed the main Jacobite army in Ireland?
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Aughrim, where the Jacobite line broke and their French commander St Ruth was killed by a cannon shot.
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What was promised to Irish Catholics when Limerick surrendered in October 1691?
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The freedom to practise their religion that they had held under Charles II, and the return of estates to those who swore loyalty to William.
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- What does The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688–c.1730 cover in OCR GCSE History A?
- 7 subtopics: the glorious revolution, the hanoverian succession and the british isles, darien, the act of union, the 1715 rising and emigration to the americas, economic impact of war and imperial expansion, the treaty of utrecht, the south sea bubble and the slave-based colonial economy, consumerism, the slave-trading ports and the coffee houses, ideas of racial hierarchy, and opposition and resistance to slavery and what empire did to britain and the british isles. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
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- By the OCR J410 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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