Migrants in Britain, c800-PRESENT | Edexcel GCSE History (1HI0)

Migrants in Britain, c800-PRESENT

184 questions
13 subtopics
Paper 1
Paper 1

Migrants in Britain, c800–present is examined in Paper 1, Thematic study and historic environment.

It covers factors driving change in migration to Britain, c800–present, the context for migration, c800–c1500, the experience and impact of migrants, c800–c1500, case study: York under the Vikings, the context for migration, c1500–c1700, the experience and impact of migrants, c1500–c1700, case studies: Flemish and Walloon migrants, and the Huguenots, the context for migration, c1700–c1900, the experience and impact of migrants, c1700–c1900, case studies: Liverpool, and Jewish migrants in the East End, the context for migration, c1900–present, the experience and impact of migrants, c1900–present and case studies: Bristol, and Asian migrants in Leicester.

Sample questions from Migrants in Britain, c800-PRESENT

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Factors driving change in migration to Britain, c800–present

What did most newcomers to Britain across the whole period come in search of?

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Work and a better living, with religious freedom and safety from persecution drawing many of the rest.
The context for migration, c800–c1500

Why was the wool trade so important in attracting migrants?

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Wool was England’s most valuable export, so foreign merchants came to buy it and foreign weavers came to work it into cloth.
Case study: York under the Vikings

Why was York so well placed for trade?

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It stood on the rivers Ouse and Foss, which gave ships a route to the Humber, the North Sea and northern Europe beyond.
The context for migration, c1500–c1700

Why did the cloth industry attract skilled newcomers?

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Foreign weavers and dyers could make finer, lighter fabrics that English producers had not learned to make.
Case studies: Flemish and Walloon migrants, and the Huguenots

Why did some of the Sandwich community move to Canterbury in 1575?

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Sandwich had begun to limit their numbers and their trading, while Canterbury offered a welcome, space and a place to worship.
The context for migration, c1700–c1900

How was Britain connected to transatlantic slavery?

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British ships carried enslaved Africans to the Americas, and British ports and industries grew rich on that trade and on slave-grown sugar, tobacco and cotton.
Case studies: Liverpool, and Jewish migrants in the East End

What health crisis followed the famine arrivals in Liverpool?

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A typhus epidemic in 1847 that killed thousands, including doctors and priests who had treated the sick.
The context for migration, c1900–present

How did later laws cut back that right of entry?

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Acts in 1962, 1968 and 1971 restricted Commonwealth entry to those holding work vouchers or having a parent or grandparent born in Britain.

The 13 subtopics

One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.

Subtopic	What it covers	Questions
Factors driving change in migration to Britain, c800–present	Push and pull factors, voluntary and forced migration, temporary and internal migrants, what newcomers sought, the four factors of institutions, religion, the economy and attitudes, how government attracted or restricted migrants, the Church's role, turning points and continuity, factors combining, comparing communities across centuries and where migrants settled.	20
The context for migration, c800–c1500	Vikings turning from raiding to settling, Normans and their followers, Jewish families invited by William I, foreign merchants and the Hanseatic League, Flemish weavers, land after 1066, towns, wool, moneylending and Christendom.	17
The experience and impact of migrants, c800–c1500	The legal status of aliens and denization, the alien subsidy, the crown and its Jewish community, the expulsion of 1290 and the attack at York in 1190, the Black Death and hostility to foreign workers, the Danelaw, Viking place names and words, Norman building, foreign merchants and French culture.	13
Case study: York under the Vikings	Jorvik, its capture in 866, its growth as a trading capital, the rivers Ouse and Foss, goods and crafts, the Coppergate finds, its size, conversion to Christianity and the end of Viking rule in 954.	10
The context for migration, c1500–c1700	Flemish, Walloon and Huguenot refugees, stranger congregations, religion as a reason for coming after the Reformation, where Europeans settled, Africans in Tudor England and the slave trade, the return of Jewish people in the 1650s, the middling sort, the cloth industry and New Draperies, the great trading companies, privateering and Protestant England as a refuge.	17
The experience and impact of migrants, c1500–c1700	Stranger churches, why Protestant refugees were welcomed, craftsmen's resentment, Evil May Day, town restrictions, the orders of 1596 and 1601, the New Draperies and other industries, Fen drainage, Vermuyden, trade and culture.	11
Case studies: Flemish and Walloon migrants, and the Huguenots	Sandwich's invitation of 1561, the households allowed, weaving and market gardening, the move to Canterbury and its crypt, tensions with neighbours, then the Huguenots after 1685, Spitalfields, denization and relief, and their contributions.	11
The context for migration, c1700–c1900	Irish famine migration and Irish work and settlement, Germans, Italians and Russian Jews, lascars and other arrivals from the empire, industrial demand, crowded cities, class change, slavery and its abolition, civil liberties and political exiles.	15
The experience and impact of migrants, c1700–c1900	Irish housing and prejudice, the Stockport riots, the poor law, Punch and the press for and against migrants, Irish, German and Jewish contributions to industry, political causes, Olaudah Equiano, churches and synagogues, and new foods.	11
Case studies: Liverpool, and Jewish migrants in the East End	Why Liverpool was the port of arrival, the courts and cellars, the typhus of 1847, Welsh, Scottish and Chinese communities, religion and politics, then Jewish settlement in the East End, sweatshops, community institutions and hostility.	11
The context for migration, c1900–present	Belgian refugees, the Kindertransport, Poles after 1945 and the Resettlement Act of 1947, Irish, Caribbean and South Asian migration, the Empire Windrush, Ugandan Asians, asylum seekers and later refugees, wartime treatment of foreigners, the Aliens Act of 1905, the Nationality Acts of 1948 and 1981 and the controls between them, decolonisation, the Commonwealth and the European Union.	21
The experience and impact of migrants, c1900–present	The British Brothers' League, internment, Mosley and Cable Street, the colour bar, the Race Relations Acts, Powell and the National Front, anti-racist movements, the Lawrence inquiry, and migrants' effect on services, culture, cities and politics.	16
Case studies: Bristol, and Asian migrants in Leicester	Why migrants came to Bristol and St Pauls, the Bristol Bus Boycott and its outcome, the riot of 1980, then Asian migration to Leicester, the arrivals of 1972, the council's advertisement and the Golden Mile.	11

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Step 2 · Open book
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.

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