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HISTORY
Industrialisation and the people: Britain, c1783–1885
Component 1F The impact of industrialisation: Britain, c1783–1832
Wednesday 15 May 2024 Afternoon Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7041/1F.
Answer two questions.
In Section A answer Question 01.
In Section B answer either Question 02 or Question 03.
Information
The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
The maximum mark for this paper is 50.
You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
You are advised to spend about:
– 50 minutes on Section A
– 40 minutes on Section B.
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, 2
Section A
Answer Question 01.
Extract A
Radicalism in the years 1812 to 1832 was a political movement. The towns and villages
hummed with political ideas. Gradually, the press began to assert more freedom and by
the 1820s, trade union strength grew and Robert Owen’s ideas spread. By the years 1828
to 1832, with the final contest between corruption and reform, working people became
more aware of their lowly place in the political system. Working people had a new view of 5
society, which was, above all, a political view. They began to see their own lives as part of
a conflict between the working classes and the unreformed House of Commons.
Adapted from E Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 1968
Extract B
Between 1812 and 1819, radicalism was firmly established in the cities and towns of the
Midlands and the North. The great demonstrations of 1816 to 1819 showed a movement
composed of men who were motivated by the trade depression. The ‘chilling hand of
poverty’ had been felt in the manufacturing towns by the working men. They knew all too
well that children were in rags and fathers were destitute. But the working men saw the 5
solution to their economic problems in terms of an attack on aristocratic government.
These ideas were to remain fundamental to working-class protests through the years to
1832. It was economic concerns that led working men to continue to attack political
corruption.
Adapted from T Tholfsen, Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England, 1976
0 1 With reference to these extracts and your understanding of the historical context, which
of these two extracts provides the more convincing interpretation of the reasons for
working-class protests in Britain in the years 1812 to 1832?
[25 marks]
IB/M/Jun24/7041/1F
AS
HISTORY
Industrialisation and the people: Britain, c1783–1885
Component 1F The impact of industrialisation: Britain, c1783–1832
Wednesday 15 May 2024 Afternoon Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7041/1F.
Answer two questions.
In Section A answer Question 01.
In Section B answer either Question 02 or Question 03.
Information
The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
The maximum mark for this paper is 50.
You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
You are advised to spend about:
– 50 minutes on Section A
– 40 minutes on Section B.
IB/M/Jun24/E4 7041/1F
, 2
Section A
Answer Question 01.
Extract A
Radicalism in the years 1812 to 1832 was a political movement. The towns and villages
hummed with political ideas. Gradually, the press began to assert more freedom and by
the 1820s, trade union strength grew and Robert Owen’s ideas spread. By the years 1828
to 1832, with the final contest between corruption and reform, working people became
more aware of their lowly place in the political system. Working people had a new view of 5
society, which was, above all, a political view. They began to see their own lives as part of
a conflict between the working classes and the unreformed House of Commons.
Adapted from E Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 1968
Extract B
Between 1812 and 1819, radicalism was firmly established in the cities and towns of the
Midlands and the North. The great demonstrations of 1816 to 1819 showed a movement
composed of men who were motivated by the trade depression. The ‘chilling hand of
poverty’ had been felt in the manufacturing towns by the working men. They knew all too
well that children were in rags and fathers were destitute. But the working men saw the 5
solution to their economic problems in terms of an attack on aristocratic government.
These ideas were to remain fundamental to working-class protests through the years to
1832. It was economic concerns that led working men to continue to attack political
corruption.
Adapted from T Tholfsen, Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England, 1976
0 1 With reference to these extracts and your understanding of the historical context, which
of these two extracts provides the more convincing interpretation of the reasons for
working-class protests in Britain in the years 1812 to 1832?
[25 marks]
IB/M/Jun24/7041/1F
