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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?

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Prior learning

It is helpful if:

  • reference has been made to questions of political debate in previous areas of study
  • pupils have experience of work involving the consideration of conflicting ideas
  • pupils are familiar with activities involving the analysis of cause and consequence and the consideration of questions of interpretation

Sections in this unit

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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'?