2025 OCR A Level History A
Y110/01 From Pitt to Peel 1783–1853
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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.
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• 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
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Source D: A former supporter of Chartism states what he considered to be the objectives of the Chartists.
The Chartists were called ugly names and unfairly. What the Chartists wanted was a voice in making the laws
they were called upon to obey. They believed that taxation without representation was tyranny, and ought to
be resisted. They took a leading part in agitating in favour of the ten hour question, the repeal of the taxes on
knowledge, education, co-operation, civil and religious liberties and the land question. They were the true
pioneers in all the great movements of their time.
B. Wilson, The Struggles of an Old Chartist, published in 1887
© OCR 2025 Y110/01 Jun25 Turn over
Y110/01 From Pitt to Peel 1783–1853
Verified Question paper with Marking Scheme Attached
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
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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
, 3
Source D: A former supporter of Chartism states what he considered to be the objectives of the Chartists.
The Chartists were called ugly names and unfairly. What the Chartists wanted was a voice in making the laws
they were called upon to obey. They believed that taxation without representation was tyranny, and ought to
be resisted. They took a leading part in agitating in favour of the ten hour question, the repeal of the taxes on
knowledge, education, co-operation, civil and religious liberties and the land question. They were the true
pioneers in all the great movements of their time.
B. Wilson, The Struggles of an Old Chartist, published in 1887
© OCR 2025 Y110/01 Jun25 Turn over
