Oxford Cambridge and RSA - 2025
Friday 6 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level History A
Y113/01 Britain 1930–1997
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
(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
Churchill 1930–1951
Study the four sources and answer Question 1.
1 ‘Churchill was out of touch with British opinion on India in the 1930s.’
Use these four sources in their historical context to assess how far they support this
view. [30]
Source A: A letter to Churchill from a member of the Indian Empire Society.
Dear Mr Churchill,
Your kind letter about the Albert Hall Meeting has been sent to all members of the
Committee of the Indian Empire society.
A Colonel Mansin writes to enquire if you would be so kind to speak at Bedford. His project
has the support of the Mayor and they propose that Lord Ampthill should take the chair.
Will you permit me to congratulate you on the marked effect of your Manchester and
Toxteth speeches?
It only shows that a Statesman of sincere patriotism can still have some influence on the
country’s policy.
With all good wishes for the success of your patriotic
efforts. Yours very truly,
W. Ameer Ali
Indian Civil Service, Retired
W. Ameer Ali, letter to Churchill, 9 February, 1931
Source B: The former Chairman of the Conservative Party comments on support for Churchill
within the Conservative Party.
Winston’s game, of course, has been obvious, as it always is. He is not the son of
Randolph for nothing. How Stanley [Baldwin] must have chuckled when the door opened
and the India Committee came in. There he saw the same faces that time and again
during the last Parliament had come to beg him to get rid of Winston from the
Government and who have recently been acclaiming him as the heaven-born leader of
the Party – on, of course, only one subject, namely India.
J.C.C. Davidson, letter to Lord Irwin, 6 March, 1931
© OCR Y113/01
2025 Jun25
Friday 6 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level History A
Y113/01 Britain 1930–1997
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
(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
[K/506/4262] DC (ST)
Charity Turn over
358921/1
, 2
Section A
Churchill 1930–1951
Study the four sources and answer Question 1.
1 ‘Churchill was out of touch with British opinion on India in the 1930s.’
Use these four sources in their historical context to assess how far they support this
view. [30]
Source A: A letter to Churchill from a member of the Indian Empire Society.
Dear Mr Churchill,
Your kind letter about the Albert Hall Meeting has been sent to all members of the
Committee of the Indian Empire society.
A Colonel Mansin writes to enquire if you would be so kind to speak at Bedford. His project
has the support of the Mayor and they propose that Lord Ampthill should take the chair.
Will you permit me to congratulate you on the marked effect of your Manchester and
Toxteth speeches?
It only shows that a Statesman of sincere patriotism can still have some influence on the
country’s policy.
With all good wishes for the success of your patriotic
efforts. Yours very truly,
W. Ameer Ali
Indian Civil Service, Retired
W. Ameer Ali, letter to Churchill, 9 February, 1931
Source B: The former Chairman of the Conservative Party comments on support for Churchill
within the Conservative Party.
Winston’s game, of course, has been obvious, as it always is. He is not the son of
Randolph for nothing. How Stanley [Baldwin] must have chuckled when the door opened
and the India Committee came in. There he saw the same faces that time and again
during the last Parliament had come to beg him to get rid of Winston from the
Government and who have recently been acclaiming him as the heaven-born leader of
the Party – on, of course, only one subject, namely India.
J.C.C. Davidson, letter to Lord Irwin, 6 March, 1931
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