Name: My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: The English Revolution, 1625-1660
Price: 19.19 USD
ISBN: 9781471876202

Hodder Education

Oliver Bullock

My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: The English Revolution, 1625-1660

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Exam Board: AQA
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016

Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge.

- Enables students to plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner

- Consolidates knowledge with clear and focused content coverage, organised into easy-to-revise chunks

- Encourages active revision by closely combining historical content with related activities

- Helps students build, practise and enhance their exam skills as they progress through activities set at three different levels

- Improves exam technique through exam-style questions with sample answers and commentary from expert authors and teachers

- Boosts historical knowledge with a useful glossary and timeline

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English

ISBN

9781471876202

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Title Page

My revision planner

Introduction

Mark scheme

Part 1: The origins of the English Civil War, 1625–42

1 The emergence of conflict and the end of consensus, 1625–29

The legacy of James I

Monarchy and Divine Right

Challenges to the arbitrary government of Charles I

Buckingham and foreign policy

Parliamentary radicalism, opposition to the King and the dissolution of parliament

Exam focus

2 An experiment in Absolutism, 1629–40

Charles I’s personal rule

Financial policy

Religious issues

Opposition in England

Opposition in Scotland and Ireland

Radicalism, dissent and the approach of war

Exam focus

3 The crisis of parliament and the outbreak of the First Civil War, 1640–42

The Political Nation, 1640

Pym and the development of parliamentary radicalism

The execution of Strafford and its consequences

The Grand Remonstrance

The failed arrest of the Five Members and the slide into war

Parties and military preparations for war

Exam focus

Part 2: Radicalism, Republic and Restoration, 1642–60 (A-level only)

4 War and radicalism, 1642–46

Royalist strengths and weaknesses

Parliamentarian strengths and weaknesses

The Solemn League and Covenant and the changing fortunes of parliament

Radicalism and the New Model Army

The end of the First Civil War

Exam focus

5 The disintegration of the Political Nation, 1646–49

Political and religious radicalism

Attempts to reach a settlement, 1646–47

The attitude of Charles towards a settlement

Divisions in parliament

The role of the army

The Second Civil War and the reasons for its outcome

The trial and execution of Charles I

Exam focus

6 Experiments in government and society, 1649–60

The Third Civil War and foreign policy

The Rump and the radicals

Successes and failures of the Rump Parliament

The Parliament of Saints: its achievements and failures

Cromwell’s personality and approach to government

Rule of the Major Generals

Cromwell and the succession

The monarchy restored

Exam focus

Glossary

Key figures

Timeline

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