Oxford Cambridge and RSA - 2025
Friday 6 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level History A
Y110/01 From Pitt to Peel 1783–1853
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
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 Y110/01
2025 Jun25
Friday 6 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level History A
Y110/01 From Pitt to Peel 1783–1853
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/506/4259] DC (SL)
Charity Turn over
359499
, 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 Y110/01
2025 Jun25
