Name one difficulty faced by migrants living in Medieval England.
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Name one migrant group that came to Britain between 1500 and 1750.
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Give one example of British legislation about immigration passed since 1900.
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Write a clear and organised summary that analyses European migrants to Britain in the period
1750 to 1900. Support your summary with examples.
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What was the experience of migrants in Britain during the First and Second World Wars? Explain
your answer with examples.
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4* ‘Migration to Britain increased between 1250 and 1500 mainly because of changes in attitudes
towards migrants.’ How far do you agree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer.
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5* ‘Migrants had a different impact in Britain during the period 1500 to 1750 than in Industrial Britain
1750–1900.’ How far do you agree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer.
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In Interpretation A, the TV presenter and historian Dan Snow argues that David Lloyd George
was a significant British politician. Identify and explain one way in which he does this.
Interpretation A – An extract from the TV documentary Dan Snow on Lloyd George: My Great-Great-Grandfather, which was broadcast in December 2016.
David Lloyd George quickly established himself as one of the most dynamic and remarkable politicians of his generation. His long and extraordinary career earned him a statue which now stands in pride of place at the very entrance to the House of Commons chamber.
He was a ‘Radical Liberal’ and determined to reform the system. And he did. In 1909, after a vicious debate in the House of Commons, he managed to pass ‘The People’s Budget’, one of the most important reforming documents in British history. It established, for the first time, Old Age Pensions and National Insurance. It was a breakthrough which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state.
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If you were asked to do further research on one aspect of Interpretation A, what would you choose to investigate? Explain how this would help us to analyse and understand politics in
Britain between 1900 and 1914.
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Interpretations B and C both focus on women’s campaign for the vote. How far do they differ and
what might explain any differences?
Interpretation B – A magazine interview with Sarah Gavron, who directed the film Suffragette. The interview was published in a feminist magazine in October 2015, just before the film’s release. I had wanted to make this film for a long time. I hadn’t learned anything about the Suffragettes at school, which is extraordinary because they are such an important piece of our history. I started to learn about the true story, the story we tell in the film. These women sacrificed so much: they were imprisoned, went on hunger strikes, were force-fed, faced great police brutality, and they turned to civil disobedience after 40 years of peaceful protests achieved nothing. We wanted to put you in the shoes of the women living then and allow you to see the world through their eyes. These women were about ‘deeds not words’, so we wanted to have a lot of action in the film.
Interpretation C – An extract from a book by historian Martin Pugh, The March of the Women: A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women’s Suffrage, 1866–1914 published in 2002. The militant Women’s Social and Political Union [Suffragettes] had decisively failed and entered a decline by 1914. Meanwhile, the non-militant Suffragist campaign had expanded into a mass movement. They made an extremely important alliance with the Labour Party and from 1912 to 1914 made massive strides in recruiting thousands of women (and many men) from the better off classes and the working classes. It is with this work, rather than the better known suffragette campaigns, that the central explanation for the eventual success of the women’s suffrage movement can be found.
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8* In his 2015 textbook, The Experience of Warfare in Britain: Crimea, Boer and the First World War 1854–1929, historian Alan Farmer argued that during the First World War ‘most British people
were solidly patriotic and committed to victory’. How far do you agree with this view?
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9* In his 1949 memoir, The House is Gone: A Personal Retrospect, journalist and poet Dudley Carew argued that the Edwardian era was a ‘golden era of prosperity’. How far do you agree with this
view of Britain between 1900 and 1914?
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