2025 AQA AS HISTORY Component 1F Industrialisation and
the People: Britain, c1783–1885 – The Impact of
Industrialisation: Britain, c1783–1832 Question Paper & Mark
Scheme (Merged) Wednesday 14 May 2025 [VERIFIED]
AS
HISTORY
Industrialisation and the people: Britain, c1783–1885
Component 1F The impact of industrialisation: Britain, c1783–1832
Wednesday 14 May 2025 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/Jun25/G400A/E5 7041/1F
, 2
Section A
Answer Question 01.
Extract A
The 1832 Reform Act was largely a reflection of the changes in the economic and social
structure of Britain. The campaign for the Act was one way in which landed property and
influence could be attacked by middle-class principles of free trade, competition and
personal advancement and by working-class ambitions to end the tyranny of landowners.
With the social and economic changes which had taken place since 1800, political change 5
was bound to follow. But the actual pace of the coming of democracy was largely dictated
by the situation at Westminster. The bill of 1832 only became a possibility when a period
of political crisis followed the end of Liverpool’s governments of 1812 to 1827.
Adapted from DG Wright, Democracy and Reform 1815–1885, 1970
Extract B
Extract B not reproduced here due to third-party copyright restrictions.
The extract is adapted from pages 17 – 18 of The Great Reform Act Reconsidered by
Eric Evans, printed by History Sixth in 1988,
ISSN 0951-4775.
Adapted from E Evans, The Great Reform Act Reconsidered, 1988
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 the
Great Reform Act?
[25 marks]
IB/M/Jun25/7041/1F
the People: Britain, c1783–1885 – The Impact of
Industrialisation: Britain, c1783–1832 Question Paper & Mark
Scheme (Merged) Wednesday 14 May 2025 [VERIFIED]
AS
HISTORY
Industrialisation and the people: Britain, c1783–1885
Component 1F The impact of industrialisation: Britain, c1783–1832
Wednesday 14 May 2025 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/Jun25/G400A/E5 7041/1F
, 2
Section A
Answer Question 01.
Extract A
The 1832 Reform Act was largely a reflection of the changes in the economic and social
structure of Britain. The campaign for the Act was one way in which landed property and
influence could be attacked by middle-class principles of free trade, competition and
personal advancement and by working-class ambitions to end the tyranny of landowners.
With the social and economic changes which had taken place since 1800, political change 5
was bound to follow. But the actual pace of the coming of democracy was largely dictated
by the situation at Westminster. The bill of 1832 only became a possibility when a period
of political crisis followed the end of Liverpool’s governments of 1812 to 1827.
Adapted from DG Wright, Democracy and Reform 1815–1885, 1970
Extract B
Extract B not reproduced here due to third-party copyright restrictions.
The extract is adapted from pages 17 – 18 of The Great Reform Act Reconsidered by
Eric Evans, printed by History Sixth in 1988,
ISSN 0951-4775.
Adapted from E Evans, The Great Reform Act Reconsidered, 1988
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 the
Great Reform Act?
[25 marks]
IB/M/Jun25/7041/1F
