Paper 2 Section A: Thematic studies

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• AA Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day: Study prevention of disease, including inoculation, Edward Jenner, vaccination and opposition to change.
• AA Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day: Study the impact of the Renaissance on Britain, including challenges to medical authority in anatomy, physiology and surgery, Vesalius, Paré, William Harvey and opposition to change.
• AA Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day: Study revolution in surgery, including anaesthetics, Simpson, chloroform, antiseptics, Lister, carbolic acid, surgical procedures and aseptic surgery.
• AA Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day: Study the development of Germ Theory and its impact on disease treatment in Britain, including Pasteur, Robert Koch, microbe hunting, vaccination, Paul Ehrlich, magic bullets and everyday treatments.
• AA Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day: Study modern treatment of disease, including the pharmaceutical industry, penicillin discovery by Fleming and development, new diseases and treatments, antibiotic resistance and alternative treatments.
• AA Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day: Study modern public health, including Booth, Rowntree, the Boer War, Liberal social reforms, world wars, poverty, housing, Beveridge Report, Welfare State, the NHS and healthcare issues in the 21st century.
• AA Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day: Study public health in the Middle Ages, including towns, monasteries and the Black Death in Britain with beliefs about causes, treatment and prevention.
• AA Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day: Study medieval medicine, including natural and supernatural approaches, Hippocratic and Galenic methods and treatments, the medieval doctor, training and beliefs about causes of illness.
• BB Britain: Power and the people: c1170 to the present day: Study minority rights, including multi-racial society since the Second World War, discrimination, protest, reform, Brixton Riots and the Scarman Report.
• BB Britain: Power and the people: c1170 to the present day: Study women's rights, including suffrage campaign reasons, methods and responses, the Pankhursts, franchise extension and progress towards equality in the second half of the 20th century.
• BB Britain: Power and the people: c1170 to the present day: Study constraints on kingship, including baronial dissatisfaction with King John, Magna Carta, its terms and short- and long-term impact.
• BB Britain: Power and the people: c1170 to the present day: Study origins of parliament, including issues between Henry III and barons, Simon de Montfort, Provisions of Oxford, the Parliament of 1265 and short- and long-term impact.
• BB Britain: Power and the people: c1170 to the present day: Study popular uprisings against the Crown, including social, economic, religious and political causes of the Pilgrimage of Grace, implications for royal authority and Henry VIII's government reaction and impact.
• BB Britain: Power and the people: c1170 to the present day: Study royal authority and the right to representation, including causes, impact and significance of the American Revolution and the relationship between government and people.
• BB Britain: Power and the people: c1170 to the present day: Study protest and change, including campaigning groups, methods and impact, the Anti-Slavery movement, Anti-Corn Law League, factory reformers and social reformers.
• BB Britain: Power and the people: c1170 to the present day: Study workers' movements, including development and impact of trade unionism, GNCTU, Tolpuddle Martyrs, New Model Unions, new unionism, match girls' strikes and dockers' strikes.
• AC Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day: Study expansion in Africa, including causes and impact of British involvement, trade, missionary activity, South Africa, Egypt, Scramble for Africa, Cecil Rhodes, Boer War and imperial propaganda.
• AC Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day: Study expansion in India, including causes and impact of British control, East India Company, Robert Clive, Warren Hastings, Indian Rebellion 1857 and empire's impact on Britain and India.
• AC Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day: Study invasion, including Vikings and Anglo-Saxons, reasons for Viking invasions, creation of the Danelaw, Alfred and Wessex, King Cnut, Emma of Normandy and the North Sea Empire.
• AC Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day: Study a Norman Kingdom and Angevin Empire, including England-France relationships, Henry II, invasion of Ireland and losses under King John.
• AC Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day: Study sugar and the Caribbean, including piracy, plunder, the slave trade, John Hawkins, Barbados and West Indies settlements and the economic and social impact of the slave trade on Britain.
• AC Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day: Study migrants to and from Britain, including Huguenot migration, Highland clearances and Ulster plantations.
• AC Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day: Study the legacy of Empire, including Windrush, Caribbean migrants, Claudia Jones, migration from Asia and Africa, Amin in Uganda, the Commonwealth and the Falklands War.
• AC Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day: Study the end of Empire, including First and Second World War impacts, Suez, nationalism and independence in India and Africa, Gandhi, Nkrumah and Kenyatta.
• Paper 2 Section A source and thematic requirements: Evaluate the usefulness of a visual or written source using content, provenance and contextual knowledge.
• Paper 2 Section A source and thematic requirements: Evaluate a stated factor against other factors such as war, religion, chance, government, communication, science and technology or the role of an individual.