OCR GCSE History B (Schools History Project) Component 13 June 2019 question paper

Name one way people in towns obtained their water in the period 1250–1500.

Give one example of what people in the first half of the nineteenth century believed caused

cholera.

Give one example of how people tried to prevent Spanish Flu in 1918–1919.

Write a clear and organised summary that analyses people’s lives in Britain in the period

1750–1900. Support your summary with examples.

Why did living conditions in medieval towns have such an important impact on people’s health?

Explain your answer.

4* How far do you agree that government responses to plague were more effective in the period

1500–1750 than the period 1250–1500? Give reasons for your answer.

5* ‘National government has done more to improve people’s health since 1900 than it did during the

Industrial Age of 1750–1900’. How far do you agree? Give reasons for your answer.

In Interpretation A, the author tries to give the impression that young men were pressured into joining the army during the First World War. Identify and explain one way in which he

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 recruitment

during the First World War.

Interpretations B and C both focus on the People’s Budget of 1909. How far do they differ and

Interpretation C – An extract from the website Liberal History which is run by members of the Liberal Democrat Party to promote the history of their party. The Liberal Democrats were formed when the Liberal Party merged with the Social Democratic Party in 1988.

The Budget was important because it allowed the House of Commons to achieve a lasting victory over the House of Lords with the 1911 Parliament Act. Historians have, however, largely rejected the view that the Budget was deliberately drafted by Lloyd George with the aim of provoking the House of Lords into rejecting it. The real aim of the Budget was to give the Liberals the financial means to press ahead with its planned social reforms, which formed the first foundations of Britain’s welfare state. In this it was a huge success, raising much more money than estimates had predicted.

8* In his 2000 school textbook, The Struggle for Peace in Northern Ireland, author Ben Walsh argued that the main cause of the Home Rule crisis 1912–1914 was that the Liberal government ‘needed the votes of the Nationalist MPs in order to pass their laws’. How far do you agree with this view?

9* In her podcast on the Historical Association website, historian June Hannam said that in the period 1910 to 1914 ‘the government was reluctant to take the step of giving women the vote because of women’s militancy’. How far do you agree with this view of government responses to the campaign

for women’s suffrage?