Migration to Britain C.1000 to C.2010 | OCR GCSE History A (J410)
Migration to Britain C.1000 to C.2010
- 156 questions
- 11 subtopics
- Paper 2
- Paper 2
Migration to Britain c.1000 to c.2010 is examined in Paper 2, British thematic study.
It covers diversity before 1066, and the impact of the Norman Conquest, jews in medieval England: treatment, integration and expulsion, resident aliens in later medieval England, africans in sixteenth-century England, the East India Company and Britain’s black communities, the readmission of Jews in 1656, and Protestant refugees, industrial-age migration: the Irish, Eastern European Jews, abolition and Chartism, naturalisation, port communities and immigration law 1870–1948, attitudes towards Jews in the 1930s and migrants in the two world wars, the impact of post-war migration on Britain, immigration as a political issue c.1990–c.2010 and the big questions about migration to Britain.
Sample questions from Migration to Britain C.1000 to C.2010
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Diversity before 1066, and the impact of the Norman Conquest
How did Edward the Confessor bring Normans into England before the Conquest?
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He had been brought up in Normandy and rewarded Norman friends with English lands and church offices, making Robert of Jumièges Archbishop of Canterbury. -
Jews in medieval England: treatment, integration and expulsion
Why did the crown set up a separate branch of the Exchequer to deal with Jewish business in the 1190s?
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So that every loan was registered and the king could tax it, and could claim the debt himself when a Jewish lender died. -
Resident aliens in later medieval England
What was the alien subsidy first collected in 1440?
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A special tax on foreign-born residents, set at 16d a year for householders and 6d for non-householders, collected at intervals until 1487; over 16,000 people were assessed in its first year. -
Africans in sixteenth-century England, the East India Company and Britain’s black communities
Did slavery have any legal standing in sixteenth-century England itself?
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No, there was no such status in English law, and Africans were baptised, paid wages and buried in parish churchyards like other residents. -
The readmission of Jews in 1656, and Protestant refugees
Which Jews formed the first community after 1656, and where did they worship?
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Sephardi families with roots in Spain and Portugal who came by way of Amsterdam, opening a synagogue in Creechurch Lane in 1657 and building Bevis Marks in 1701. -
Industrial-age migration: the Irish, Eastern European Jews, abolition and Chartism
Which black abolitionist demanded the immediate and complete end of slavery in a book of 1787?
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Ottobah Cugoano, in his Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery. -
Naturalisation, port communities and immigration law 1870–1948
Why did seamen from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean settle in these ports?
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They were signed off British merchant ships between voyages, lodged in boarding houses near the docks, took work ashore and often married local women. -
Attitudes towards Jews in the 1930s and migrants in the two world wars
How did the government answer fascist street politics in 1936?
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The Public Order Act banned political uniforms and gave the police power to ban or reroute marches.
The 11 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Diversity before 1066, and the impact of the Norman Conquest | England's peoples before 1066, the Danelaw and its lasting traces, Edward the Confessor's Normans, the dispossession of English landholders, Norman French, the reformed Church, castles, the Harrying of the North, Hereward the Wake and the Revolt of the Earls. | 11 |
| Jews in medieval England: treatment, integration and expulsion | The first Jewish settlers from Rouen, why kings valued Jewish lenders, Edward I's expulsion of 1290, life under royal protection, the Exchequer's Jewish branch, the blood libel, York in 1190, the Statute of the Jewry, community life and the Domus Conversorum. | 13 |
| Resident aliens in later medieval England | Who the aliens were, Edward III's Flemish cloth workers, the killing of Flemings in 1381, the oath of 1436 and the alien subsidy of 1440, letters of denization, guild restrictions and hostility in London, integration and the Hanse, and hop brewing. | 11 |
| Africans in sixteenth-century England, the East India Company and Britain’s black communities | How Africans reached Tudor England, John Blanke, the Moroccan embassy, African work and legal status, Jacques Francis and Reasonable Blackman, Elizabeth I's orders, the East India Company, lascars, ayahs and child servants, and the growth of black communities through slavery and empire. | 20 |
| The readmission of Jews in 1656, and Protestant refugees | Menasseh ben Israel and the Whitehall Conference, how and why Jews were readmitted, the Sephardi community and the limits it lived under, the Huguenots' flight, reception, trades and assimilation, and the Palatines of 1709. | 13 |
| Industrial-age migration: the Irish, Eastern European Jews, abolition and Chartism | Irish and Scottish migrants in the Industrial Revolution and the Great Famine, Equiano, Cugoano, the Sons of Africa and Mary Prince, William Cuffay and the Irish in Chartism, and the Eastern European Jews who came after 1881, their work, reception and impact. | 14 |
| Naturalisation, port communities and immigration law 1870–1948 | Denization and naturalisation before 1870 and the Naturalisation Act, mixed port populations and Tiger Bay, the riots of 1919, the 1925 seamen's order, the Aliens Act of 1905, the Status of Aliens Act of 1914 and the British Nationality Act of 1948. | 14 |
| Attitudes towards Jews in the 1930s and migrants in the two world wars | Britain's response to Jewish refugees and the Kindertransport, Mosley's British Union of Fascists, Cable Street and the Public Order Act, arguments against and sympathy for refugees, and the wartime treatment of imperial soldiers, Italians, interned refugees, Caribbean volunteers and Germans. | 12 |
| The impact of post-war migration on Britain | The Poles who stayed and the Resettlement Act, why Caribbean and Commonwealth migrants came, work, worship and culture, the MPs of 1987, housing and workplace discrimination, the Bristol Bus Boycott, Notting Hill, Enoch Powell, anti-racism and the immigration and race relations laws. | 18 |
| Immigration as a political issue c.1990–c.2010 | The idea of a multi-cultural society, the Macpherson Report, the northern disturbances of 2001, citizenship tests and ceremonies, asylum seekers and refugees and the conflicts that sent them, their treatment while claims were decided, and free movement after the EU enlargement of 2004. | 10 |
| The big questions about migration to Britain | Religious, economic, political and social reasons for coming, community building, contributions, hostility and resistance, government responses, welcomes, effects on towns, religion and politics, empire, the Commonwealth, trade and ideas of Britishness. | 20 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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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.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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