History at key stage 3 (Year 8)

Unit 8: The civil wars was England 'turned upside down' in the seventeenth century?

Future learning

The political issues considered in this unit should be further explored in units covering both 'Britain 1750- 1900' and 'A world study after 1900'. Pupils studying unit 10 'France 1789-94' can make comparisons between events in both countries that led to the kings' execution. Pupils' understanding of causation could be developed in unit 18 'Twentieth-century conflicts'.

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'?