Eduqas GCSE History: Component 1 Option 1C — Empire, Reform and War: Britain, 1890-1918

What is included

What this course covers

• Topic 1 — The Second Boer War

  • 1.1 – Reasons for the war and early Boer success
  • 1.2 – Relief of British garrisons; guerrilla warfare; scorched earth and concentration camps
  • 1.3 – Changing attitudes in Britain

• Topic 2 — Political developments

  • 2.1 – Liberal government and reform
  • 2.2 – 1909 Budget and the Constitutional Crisis; 1911 Parliament Act
  • 2.3 – Power of the trade unions and growth of the Labour Party

• Topic 3 — Social reform

  • 3.1 – Extent of poverty in the late nineteenth century; reports of Booth and Rowntree
  • 3.2 – Educational reforms
  • 3.3 – Old Age Pensions 1908 and National Insurance Act 1911

• Topic 4 — Women’s suffrage

  • 4.1 – Millicent Fawcett and the Suffragists
  • 4.2 – The Pankhursts and the Suffragettes; Emily Davison
  • 4.3 – Tactics used and the Act of 1918

• Topic 5 — Culture and fashion

  • 5.1 – Literature – Hardy, Shaw, HG Wells, Beatrix Potter
  • 5.2 – Changes in fashion and the music hall
  • 5.3 – Development of cinema and sport

• Topic 6 — The Western Front

  • 6.1 – Tactics on the Western Front and new technology
  • 6.2 – Case study of a major battle such as Ypres, Somme and Verdun
  • 6.3 – Life in the trenches

• Topic 7 — Impact of the First World War

  • 7.1 – Recruitment and conscription; propaganda
  • 7.2 – Role of women and role of government - DORA
  • 7.3 – Growth of disillusionment and attitudes at the end of the war

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