OCR GCSE History A J410
Castles: Form and Function c.1000–1750Historic environment
China 1950–1981: The People and the StateDepth study
Germany 1925–1955: The People and the StateDepth study
International Relations: The Changing International Order 1918–1975
Migration to Britain c.1000 to c.2010Thematic study
Personal Rule to Restoration 1629–1660British depth
Power: Monarchy and Democracy in Britain c.1000 to 2014Thematic study
South Africa 1960–1994: The People and the StateDepth study
The English Reformation c.1520–c.1550British depth
The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688–c.1730British depth
The USA 1919–1948: The People and the StateDepth study
The USA 1945–1974: The People and the StateDepth study
Urban Environments: Patterns of MigrationHistoric environment
War and British Society c.790 to c.2010Thematic study
Urban Environments: Patterns of Migration
Reading the buildings, maps and records of Spitalfields
- 3 things to know
- Paper 3
Overview
The sundial and minaret of the Brick Lane Jamme Masjid, the renaming of Fournier Street, the Christ Church crypt excavation, Arkell's map of Jewish East London and Booth's poverty map, Rothschild Buildings and the Soup Kitchen, the scarce Irish traces and Bangladeshi oral history.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
What can Charles Booth’s poverty map of 1889 show about Spitalfields?
What did the excavation of the crypt of Christ Church Spitalfields in 1984 to 1986 reveal?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What does the sundial on the Brick Lane Jamme Masjid tell a historian?
Model answer
It is dated 1743 and carries the Latin motto “Umbra sumus”, meaning “we are shadows”, showing the building was put up as a Huguenot chapel before later communities took it over.
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Which addition to the Brick Lane Jamme Masjid in 2009 marks its newest community?
Model answer
A tall steel minaret-like structure standing on the pavement in front of the building.
- 3
Why is the renaming of Church Street as Fournier Street in 1893 evidence to be used with care?
Model answer
It honours George Fournier, a Huguenot benefactor, but it was chosen long after the Huguenots arrived, so it shows how the area wanted to remember them rather than what they called the street.
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What did the excavation of the crypt of Christ Church Spitalfields in 1984 to 1986 reveal?
Model answer
Nearly a thousand burials from 1729 to the 1850s, and the coffin plates showed that around 40% of the people who could be named were of Huguenot descent.
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What does George Arkell’s map of 1899, Jewish East London, show?
Model answer
The share of Jewish residents in each street of Spitalfields and Whitechapel, coloured from dark blue for 95–100% Jewish to red for under 5%, showing how densely the community was concentrated.
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Why should a historian be cautious about Arkell’s map of Jewish East London?
Model answer
It used the same dark blue that Charles Booth’s poverty maps gave to the poorest, semi-criminal streets, which could suggest Jewish streets were poorer than Booth’s later map showed them to be.
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