Eduqas GCSE History: Component 2 Option 2G — The Development of Warfare in Britain, c.500 to the present day

What is included

What this course covers

• Topic 1 — Causes of war

  • 1.1 – Causes of war in general with reference to specific wars as exemplification
  • 1.2 – Religion in causing the Crusades; politics in causing the English Civil War
  • 1.3 – Nationalism and expansionism in the Second World War; ideology in the Cold War

• Topic 2 — Changes in tactics and strategy

  • 2.1 – Saxon and Viking battle methods; medieval battle tactics and strategy
  • 2.2 – The use of linear tactics up to the mid nineteenth century
  • 2.3 – The development of entrenched warfare in the First World War
  • 2.4 – Guerilla methods and their impact on British soldiers, nineteenth and twentieth centuries

• Topic 3 — Training and recruitment

  • 3.1 – Feudal duties and chivalrous codes; the creation of Tudor armies
  • 3.2 – The New Model Army of the 1640s and the beginning of professionalism
  • 3.3 – Press gangs and recruiting parties in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
  • 3.4 – First World War recruitment propaganda; conscription, National Service and career soldiers

• Topic 4 — Changes in technology

  • 4.1 – Medieval siege warfare; bows and firearms as British weapons up to the seventeenth century
  • 4.2 – The impact of industrialisation on British weaponry in the nineteenth century
  • 4.3 – Developments in machinery during First and Second World Wars: tanks and aircraft
  • 4.4 – Nuclear warfare in the 1950s; computerisation and hi-tech weaponry in the armed forces

• Topic 5 — Development of naval warfare

  • 5.1 – Viking and Norman longboats; the Tudor navy and the defeat of the Armada
  • 5.2 – The navy from the mid seventeenth century; the Royal Navy and the defeat of Napoleon
  • 5.3 – The Royal Navy in the First and Second World Wars and in the twenty-first century

• Topic 6 — The role of women in war

  • 6.1 – Women in medieval battles and in British armies 1500-1815: nursing, support, prostitution
  • 6.2 – The role of women as nurses and auxiliaries in the nineteenth century
  • 6.3 – Women and their role on the Home Fronts in the First and Second World Wars
  • 6.4 – Women on the front line: Flora Sandes, Dorothy Lawrence, Sarah Bushbye

• Topic 7 — Historic site assessed 2026 and 2027: Royal Dockyards, Chatham c.1567-1984

  • 7.1 – The historical context
  • 7.2 – The main features of the historic environment of Royal Dockyards, Chatham c.1567-1984
  • 7.3 – The significance of Royal Dockyards, Chatham c.1567-1984

• Topic 8 — Historic site assessed 2028 and 2029: Aldershot Garrison 1854 to the present day

  • 8.1 – The historical context
  • 8.2 – The main features of the historic environment of Aldershot Garrison 1854-present day
  • 8.3 – The significance of Aldershot Garrison 1854-present day

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