AQA A Level History Depth Study: The Making of Modern Britain, 1951-2007 June 2017 question paper 7042/2S

With reference to these sources and your understanding of the historical context, assess the value of these three sources to an historian studying the reasons for the 1984/85 miners’ strike.

‘The Conservative ‘stop-go’ economic policies in the years 1955 to 1964 fundamentally weakened the British economy.’

Assess the validity of this view.

‘The reason behind Britain’s attempts to join the EEC in the years 1967 to 1973 was that Britain could no longer claim to be a world power in its own right.’

Assess the validity of this view.

How successful was New Labour in creating a fairer and more equal society in Britain by 2007?