OCR A Level History A Y110/01 From Pitt to Peel 1783–1853 June 2025 Combined
QUESTION PAPER and MARK SCHEME MERGED
Oxford Cambridge and RSA
Friday 6 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level History A
Y110/01 From Pitt to Peel 1783–1853
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
You must have:
• the OCR 12-page Answer Booklet
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
Peel and the Age of Reform 1832–1853
Study the four sources and answer Question 1.
1 ‘Economic reasons explain the emergence of Chartism.’
Use the four sources in their historical context to assess how far they support this view. [30]
Source A: An independent Methodist minister speaking at the Kersal Moor meeting, near
Manchester.
This question of Universal Suffrage was a knife and fork question after all; this question was a
bread and cheese question, and if any man asked him what he meant by Universal Suffrage, he
would answer that every working man in the land had the right to have a good coat to his back, a
comfortable abode in which to shelter himself and his family, a good dinner upon his table and no
more work than was necessary for keeping him in health, and as much wages for that work as would
keep him in plenty, and afford him the blessings of life which a reasonable man could desire.
J. R. Stephens, Northern Star, 29 September 1838
Source B: A radical Chartist who writes about his views on the franchise.
What a farce the present system is! The present House of Commons does not represent the people.
Pawnbrokers are enfranchised, and two thousand brothel owners in London all have votes, but honest
folk have none. It is indeed disgusting to see how much of the ‘honey’ is taken by the ‘drones’*, and
what a pittance is left to the ‘worker bees’ and how the parliamentary franchise is monopolised by one
tenth of the population and that one tenth the worst tenth.
*drones – bees which do little work
Bronterre O’Brien, Charter, 14 April 1839
Source C: A handloom weaver, prominent in the Chartist movement and who campaigned
throughout his life against injustice, expresses his views to an audience in Clitheroe,
Lancashire.
For twenty years we have petitioned and implored, but in vain first, for a removal of the Corn Laws,
then for Boards of Trade, and a reduction of taxes. Our prospects are now gloomy in the extreme.
Nothing now presents itself but starving to death. We are now convinced that appeals to you are
useless; you have destroyed our confidence; the hopes for so long and fondly cherished are blasted.
Henceforth, on our own strength and the justice of our own cause, we shall rely; and look within
ourselves for the elements of another and better state of things.
R. Marsden, speech, July 1842
© OCR 2025 Y110/01 Jun25
QUESTION PAPER and MARK SCHEME MERGED
Oxford Cambridge and RSA
Friday 6 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level History A
Y110/01 From Pitt to Peel 1783–1853
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
You must have:
• the OCR 12-page Answer Booklet
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 [K/506/4259] OCR is an exempt Charity
DC (SL) 359499 Turn over
*1399 659 772*
, 2
Section A
Peel and the Age of Reform 1832–1853
Study the four sources and answer Question 1.
1 ‘Economic reasons explain the emergence of Chartism.’
Use the four sources in their historical context to assess how far they support this view. [30]
Source A: An independent Methodist minister speaking at the Kersal Moor meeting, near
Manchester.
This question of Universal Suffrage was a knife and fork question after all; this question was a
bread and cheese question, and if any man asked him what he meant by Universal Suffrage, he
would answer that every working man in the land had the right to have a good coat to his back, a
comfortable abode in which to shelter himself and his family, a good dinner upon his table and no
more work than was necessary for keeping him in health, and as much wages for that work as would
keep him in plenty, and afford him the blessings of life which a reasonable man could desire.
J. R. Stephens, Northern Star, 29 September 1838
Source B: A radical Chartist who writes about his views on the franchise.
What a farce the present system is! The present House of Commons does not represent the people.
Pawnbrokers are enfranchised, and two thousand brothel owners in London all have votes, but honest
folk have none. It is indeed disgusting to see how much of the ‘honey’ is taken by the ‘drones’*, and
what a pittance is left to the ‘worker bees’ and how the parliamentary franchise is monopolised by one
tenth of the population and that one tenth the worst tenth.
*drones – bees which do little work
Bronterre O’Brien, Charter, 14 April 1839
Source C: A handloom weaver, prominent in the Chartist movement and who campaigned
throughout his life against injustice, expresses his views to an audience in Clitheroe,
Lancashire.
For twenty years we have petitioned and implored, but in vain first, for a removal of the Corn Laws,
then for Boards of Trade, and a reduction of taxes. Our prospects are now gloomy in the extreme.
Nothing now presents itself but starving to death. We are now convinced that appeals to you are
useless; you have destroyed our confidence; the hopes for so long and fondly cherished are blasted.
Henceforth, on our own strength and the justice of our own cause, we shall rely; and look within
ourselves for the elements of another and better state of things.
R. Marsden, speech, July 1842
© OCR 2025 Y110/01 Jun25
