AQA A-level HISTORY 7042/1G Component 1G Challenge and transformati| QUESTION PAPER & MARKING SCHEME/ [MERGED] Marking scheme June 2023on: Britain, c1851–1964 Version: 1.0 Final IB/M/Jun23/E4 7042/1G A-level HISTORY

AQA A-level HISTORY 7042/1G Component 1G Challenge and transformation: Britain, c1851–1964 Version: 1.0 Final IB/M/Jun23/E4 7042/1G A-level HISTORY Component 1G Challenge and transformation: Britain, c1851–1964 Wednesday 24 May 2023 Morning Time allowed: 2 hours 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 7042/1G. • Answer three questions. In Section A answer Question 01. In Section B answer two questions. Information • The marks for questions are shown in brackets. • The maximum mark for this paper is 80. • 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: – 1 hour on Question 01 from Section A – 45 minutes on each of the two questions answered from Section B. 2 IB/M/Jun23/7042/1G Section A Answer Question 01. Extract A In the years 1866 to 1894, Gladstone performed an immense political service to the country and to the Liberal Party by integrating new working-class voters into the political system. The ‘People’s William’ was the first prime minister the masses could identify with and adore. As a result, there was no mass revolutionary socialist movement committed to the overthrow of the state, as in other European countries. Instead, British politics became more settled. The old political world was not totally overthrown, yet room was made peacefully for the new. The triumph of free trade ensured cheap food and rising living standards, which, for most ordinary Britons in the 1880s and 1890s, was of great benefit. Furthermore, Gladstone implanted in the Liber