OCR GCSE History A (Explaining the Modern World) British depth study with historic environment: The impact of empire on Britain 1688-c.1730 + Urban environments: patterns of migration June 2024 question paper J410/11

Explain how the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 led to conflict in Ireland and Scotland.

Explain why the urban environment in Spitalfields changed between 1500 and 1900.

Study Sources D and E.

Which of these sources is more useful to a historian studying Spitalfields in the 1970s?

Source D

An extract from an article in the ‘Daily Mirror’, a national British newspaper, published in June 1978.

BRICKS IN BRICK LANE

Abdul Manuf fought for Britain in the Second World War and spent nearly three years in an enemy prison camp. On Sunday he spent part of the day in a London hospital having his face stitched after he had been struck by three bricks.

Mr Manuf, a Bengali grocer, was one of those attacked by thugs on a racist rampage in Brick Lane. The growing violence in London’s East End led to the idea – since abandoned – of the council providing blocks of housing reserved for Bengalis only.

In the short-term, the Bengalis of Brick Lane MUST be given police protection. In the long term, the answer is better housing, better schooling and better job opportunities for all – black and white.

Source E

A photograph of a protest on Brick Lane in Spitalfields, taken in the summer of 1978. The protesters were trying to prevent the far right-wing group the ‘National Front’ from selling newspapers.