Oxford Cambridge and RSA - 2025
Friday 6 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level History A
Y109/01 The Making of Georgian Britain 1678–c.1760
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minute
(Verified Question Paper With Mark
Scheme Combined June 2025)
,INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question
numbers must be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer Question 1 in Section A. Answer either Question 2 or Question 3 in
Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 50.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an
asterisk (*).
• This document has 4 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
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Section A
The Glorious Revolution 1678–1689
Study the four sources and answer Question 1.
1 ‘It was James’ actions in the autumn of 1688 that led to the loss of his throne.’
Use the four sources in their historical context to assess how far they support this
view. [30]
Source A: In October 1688, the diarist John Evelyn gives an account of popular responses to
the king’s actions.
In the meantime, [the king] called over 5,000 Irish, and 4,000 Scots, and continued to
remove Protestants and put in Papists at Portsmouth and other places of trust, and
retained the Jesuits about him, increasing the universal discontent. It brought people to
so desperate a pass, that they seemed passionately to long for and desire the landing
of that Prince, whom they looked on to be their deliverer from Popish tyranny, praying
incessantly for an east wind, which was said to be the only hindrance of his expedition
with a numerous army ready to make a descent. To such a strange temper, and
unheard-of in former times, was this poor nation reduced, and of which I was an
eye-witness.
John Evelyn, Diary, 7 October, 1688
Source B: The French Ambassador describes the situation at Court in London.
I can never forget the confusion the court was in. The king knew not whom to trust and
the fright was so great that they were apt to believe an impossible report just then
brought in that the prince of Orange was come with twelve thousand horses, between
Warminster and Salisbury. Everybody in
this hurly-burly was thinking of himself and nobody minded the king, who came up to Dr
Radcliffe and asked him what was good for the bleeding of his nose.
The French Ambassador, letter to Louis XIV, December 1688
Source C: A Whig bishop remembers the king’s flight and considers the different
contemporary opinions as to why he did so.
It was strange that a great king, who had a good army and strong fleet, should choose
rather to abandon all than either try his fate with that part of the army that stood firm to
him, or stay and see the issue of Parliament. This was variously believed to be his lack of
courage, his consciousness of guilt, or the advice of those about him; but so it was that
his deserting in this manner, and leaving them to be pillaged by an army that he had
ordered to be disbanded without pay, was thought the forfeiture of his right and the
expiration of his reign.
Gilbert Burnet, History of His Own Time, written before 1715
© OCR Y109/01
2025 Jun25
Friday 6 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level History A
Y109/01 The Making of Georgian Britain 1678–c.1760
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minute
(Verified Question Paper With Mark
Scheme Combined June 2025)
,INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question
numbers must be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer Question 1 in Section A. Answer either Question 2 or Question 3 in
Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 50.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an
asterisk (*).
• This document has 4 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
© OCR 2025
OCR is an exempt
[H/506/4258] DC (JP)
Charity Turn over
358919/1
, 2
Section A
The Glorious Revolution 1678–1689
Study the four sources and answer Question 1.
1 ‘It was James’ actions in the autumn of 1688 that led to the loss of his throne.’
Use the four sources in their historical context to assess how far they support this
view. [30]
Source A: In October 1688, the diarist John Evelyn gives an account of popular responses to
the king’s actions.
In the meantime, [the king] called over 5,000 Irish, and 4,000 Scots, and continued to
remove Protestants and put in Papists at Portsmouth and other places of trust, and
retained the Jesuits about him, increasing the universal discontent. It brought people to
so desperate a pass, that they seemed passionately to long for and desire the landing
of that Prince, whom they looked on to be their deliverer from Popish tyranny, praying
incessantly for an east wind, which was said to be the only hindrance of his expedition
with a numerous army ready to make a descent. To such a strange temper, and
unheard-of in former times, was this poor nation reduced, and of which I was an
eye-witness.
John Evelyn, Diary, 7 October, 1688
Source B: The French Ambassador describes the situation at Court in London.
I can never forget the confusion the court was in. The king knew not whom to trust and
the fright was so great that they were apt to believe an impossible report just then
brought in that the prince of Orange was come with twelve thousand horses, between
Warminster and Salisbury. Everybody in
this hurly-burly was thinking of himself and nobody minded the king, who came up to Dr
Radcliffe and asked him what was good for the bleeding of his nose.
The French Ambassador, letter to Louis XIV, December 1688
Source C: A Whig bishop remembers the king’s flight and considers the different
contemporary opinions as to why he did so.
It was strange that a great king, who had a good army and strong fleet, should choose
rather to abandon all than either try his fate with that part of the army that stood firm to
him, or stay and see the issue of Parliament. This was variously believed to be his lack of
courage, his consciousness of guilt, or the advice of those about him; but so it was that
his deserting in this manner, and leaving them to be pillaged by an army that he had
ordered to be disbanded without pay, was thought the forfeiture of his right and the
expiration of his reign.
Gilbert Burnet, History of His Own Time, written before 1715
© OCR Y109/01
2025 Jun25
