AQA A Level History Depth Study: The English Revolution, 1625-1660 June 2018 question paper 7042/2E

With reference to these sources and your understanding of the historical context, assess the value of these three sources to an historian studying Cromwell’s dissolution of the Rump Parliament in April 1653.

‘Buckingham was the cause of the deterioration in Crown-Parliament relations in the years 1625 to 1629.’

Assess the validity of this view.

‘In the years 1640 to 1642, developments outside Parliament were more important than those inside it in bringing about the outbreak of civil war in England.’

Assess the validity of this view.

How important was religious radicalism in the New Model Army in bringing about the regicide?