OCR GCSE History B: Thematic study — The People’s Health, c.1250 to present

What is included

What this course covers

• Period 1 - Medieval Britain c.1250–c.1500

  • 1.1 – The characteristic features of medieval Britain: an overview
  • 1.2 – Living conditions: housing, food, clean water and waste
  • 1.3 – Responses to the Black Death: beliefs and actions
  • 1.4 – Approaches to public health in late-medieval towns and monasteries

• Period 2 - Early Modern Britain c.1500–c.1750

  • 2.1 – Cultural, social and economic change including the growth of towns: an overview
  • 2.2 – Changing living conditions: housing, food, clean water and waste
  • 2.3 – Responses to outbreaks of plague including national plague orders and local reactions
  • 2.4 – Government and public health: the urban environment and the gin craze, 1660–1751

• Period 3 - Industrial Britain, c.1750–c.1900

  • 3.1 – Industrialisation, the growth of major cities and political change: an overview
  • 3.2 – Urban living conditions in the early nineteenth century: housing, food, water and waste
  • 3.3 – Responses to cholera epidemics
  • 3.4 – Public health reform in the nineteenth century: Public Health Acts and local initiatives

• Period 4 - Britain since c. 1900

  • 4.1 – Economic, political, social and cultural change: an overview
  • 4.2 – Living conditions and lifestyles: housing, food, air quality and inactivity
  • 4.3 – Responses to Spanish Influenza and AIDS
  • 4.4 – Government involvement in public health: pollution, anti-smoking and healthy lifestyles

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