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AQA GCSE History: Paper 2 Option BC — Elizabethan England, c1568-1603

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What this course covers

  • Part one — Elizabeth's court and Parliament

    • 1.1 – Elizabeth I and her court
    • 1.2 – The difficulties of a female ruler

  • Part two — Life in Elizabethan times

    • 2.1 – A ‘Golden Age’
    • 2.2 – The poor
    • 2.3 – English sailors

  • Part three — Troubles at home and abroad

    • 3.1 – Religious matters
    • 3.2 – Mary Queen of Scots
    • 3.3 – Conflict with Spain

  • Part four — The historic environment of Elizabethan England

    • 4.1 – The site: its location, function, structure, people connected with it and design
    • 4.2 – The design of the site: the culture, values and fashions it reflects, and how it changed
    • 4.3 – How the events and developments of the depth study are connected to the site

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