Edexcel A-level History: Paper 1 Option 1B — England, 1509–1603: authority, nation and religion

What is included

What this course covers

• Theme 1 — Monarchy and government, 1509–88

  • 1.1 – The Tudor monarchs
  • 1.2 – The changing role of Parliament
  • 1.3 – The principal servants of the Crown

• Theme 2 — Religious changes, 1509–88

  • 2.1 – Tudor monarchs and religious change
  • 2.2 – Catholicism and its survival
  • 2.3 – Protestantism and puritanism

• Theme 3 — State control and popular resistance, 1509–88

  • 3.1 – Tudor control of the country
  • 3.2 – The state and the poor
  • 3.3 – Resistance to Tudor rule

• Theme 4 — Economic, social and cultural change, 1509–88

  • 4.1 – Patterns of domestic and foreign trade
  • 4.2 – The changing structure of society
  • 4.3 – Cultural change

• Historical interpretations - Was there a general crisis of government in the last years of Elizabeth I’s reign, 1589–1603?

  • 5.1 – The significance of threats to national security from Spain and Ireland
  • 5.2 – The extent of faction at court and the succession issue
  • 5.3 – The importance of growing conflicts with Parliament and the session of 1601
  • 5.4 – The importance of harvest failures in the 1590s and the growth of social distress

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