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History at key stage 3    (Year 8)

Unit 8: The civil wars was England 'turned upside down' in the seventeenth century?
Section 6: Why did the winners of the civil wars argue among themselves?

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Objectives
Children should learn:
  • about the wide range of views on how the country should be run after the civil wars
  • about the power struggle between the army and Parliament between 1649 and 1653

Activities

Outcomes
Children:
  • Describe the very different views held by Republicans, Levellers, Diggers, and Royalists.
  • Ask the pupils to use their knowledge to say how radical/conservative the ideas were, eg on a scale of 1 to 10, and to explain their choices.
  • Establish that the radicals in the army were eventually defeated and that there were two winners of the civil wars: Parliament and conservative army generals.
  • Tell pupils that there was then a battle for power between the two.
  • Pupils study the events of 1649-53 and decide which side triumphed in this struggle.
  • understand some of the political arguments used by different factions within the victorious Parliamentary army
  • explain whether the army or Parliament was more successful in the struggle that followed the conclusion of the civil wars

Points to note
  • Citizenship: links could be made to legal rights and the electoral system, which could be explored in a historical context.

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1. Why was 1649 a year of reckoning?
2. What do successful monarchs do? What did Charles I do?
3. How do historians disagree about the causes of the civil wars?
4. How did the civil wars divide families?
5. Why did Parliament win the civil wars?
6. Why did the winners of the civil wars argue among themselves?
7. Why do people interpret Cromwell in very different ways?
8. What happened at the Restoration?
9. Was 'the world turned upside down'?