Paper 2 Section B: British depth studies including the historic environment

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• BA Norman England, c1066-c1100: Study causes of Norman Conquest, including Edward the Confessor's death, claimants and claims.
• BA Norman England, c1066-c1100: Study military aspects, including Stamford Bridge, Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman tactics, cavalry and castles.
• BA Norman England, c1066-c1100: Study how important events and developments from Norman England connect to the specified site.
• BA Norman England, c1066-c1100: Study the design of the specified historic environment site.
• BA Norman England, c1066-c1100: Study feudalism and government, including roles, rights, responsibilities, landholding, lordship, land distribution, patronage, Anglo-Saxon and Norman government, aristocracies, societies, military service, justice, legal system, ordeals, murdrum, inheritance and the Domesday Book.
• BA Norman England, c1066-c1100: Study economic and social changes and consequences, including Anglo-Saxon and Norman life, towns, villages, buildings, work, food, roles, seasonal life and Forest law.
• BA Norman England, c1066-c1100: Study the Church, including the Anglo-Saxon Church before 1066, Lanfranc, reform, church and cathedral building, Church organisation and courts, Church-state relations, William II, Church wealth, Papacy relations and Investiture Controversy.
• BA Norman England, c1066-c1100: Study monasticism, including Norman reforms, abbeys, monasteries, monastic life, learning, schools, education, Latin usage and the vernacular.
• BB Medieval England: the reign of Edward I, 1272-1307: Study development of government, rights and justice, including Hundred Rolls, Robert Burnell, Statutes of Westminster, Statutes of Mortmain, Quo Warranto Inquiries, parliaments and the Model Parliament 1295.
• BB Medieval England: the reign of Edward I, 1272-1307: Study Henry III's legacy, including Edward's relationship with Henry III, problems on Edward I's accession, relations with the nobility and Edward I's character as king.
• BB Medieval England: the reign of Edward I, 1272-1307: Study trade, towns and villages, including agriculture, wool trade, royal finance, taxation, wool tax, Statute of Merchants, Italian bankers, re-coinage and expulsion of the Jews in 1290.
• BB Medieval England: the reign of Edward I, 1272-1307: Study development of the legal system, including laws, courts, trials, crimes, criminals, punishments and Statutes of Gloucester 1278 and Winchester 1285.
• BB Medieval England: the reign of Edward I, 1272-1307: Study medieval warfare, tactics and technology, including siege warfare, cavalry, infantry, weapons and armour.
• BB Medieval England: the reign of Edward I, 1272-1307: Study relations with Scotland, including the Great Cause, Scottish succession, Balliol, Bruce, Scottish campaigns, William Wallace, the First War of Scottish Independence and Edward I's reputation as Hammer of the Scots.
• BB Medieval England: the reign of Edward I, 1272-1307: Study how churches, fortified manor houses, castles, towns, villages, trade, revolts, battles and wars can connect the historic environment to the depth study.
• BB Medieval England: the reign of Edward I, 1272-1307: Study the design of the specified historic environment site.
• BC Elizabethan England, c1568-1603: Study how Tudor manor houses, gardens, theatres, villages, towns, cities, voyages, trade, revolts and battles can connect the historic environment to the depth study.
• BC Elizabethan England, c1568-1603: Study how the site's design reflects the culture, values and fashions of the people at the time.
• BC Elizabethan England, c1568-1603: Study Elizabeth I and her court, including Elizabeth's background and character, court life, patronage and key ministers.
• BC Elizabethan England, c1568-1603: Study the difficulties of a female ruler, including relations with Parliament, marriage, succession and Elizabeth's authority at the end of her reign including Essex's rebellion in 1601.
• BC Elizabethan England, c1568-1603: Study the poor, including reasons for increased poverty, attitudes and responses to poverty, reasons for government action and seriousness of the problem.
• BC Elizabethan England, c1568-1603: Study English sailors, including Hawkins, Drake, circumnavigation from 1577 to 1580, voyages, trade and Raleigh's role.
• BC Elizabethan England, c1568-1603: Study Mary Queen of Scots, including background, Elizabeth and Parliament's treatment of Mary, Mary's challenge, plots, execution and its impact.
• BC Elizabethan England, c1568-1603: Study religious matters, including English Catholicism and Protestantism, Northern Rebellion, excommunication, missionaries, Catholic plots, threats to the Elizabethan settlement, Puritanism and government responses.
• BD Restoration England, 1660-1685: Study how the site's design reflects the culture, values and fashions of the people at the time.
• BD Restoration England, 1660-1685: Study the location of the specified historic environment site.
• BD Restoration England, 1660-1685: Study Crown and Parliament, including the English Civil War and Commonwealth legacy, restoration of monarchy, succession, Parliament relations and issues, finance, religion, the Cabal, Party politics and rule without parliament from 1681.
• BD Restoration England, 1660-1685: Study the Catholic question, including Titus Oates, Popish Plot, Rye House Plot, Exclusion Bill 1679 and James, Duke of York.
• BD Restoration England, 1660-1685: Study Restoration culture, including comedy, theatres, playwrights, women's role and status, coffee houses, Charles II's patronage of arts and sciences, the Royal Society, Samuel Pepys, architecture and Christopher Wren.
• BD Restoration England, 1660-1685: Study crisis, including the Great Plague of 1665, causes, contemporary views, measures, records, results, the Fire of London 1666, causes, contemporary views, results and reconstruction.
• BD Restoration England, 1660-1685: Study land, including East India Company powers, Bombay, Hudson Bay, Tangier, Captain Henry Morgan and Jamaica.
• BD Restoration England, 1660-1685: Study trade, including mercantilism, Navigation Acts and their impact and the slave trade.
• Paper 2 Section B interpretation and historic environment requirements: Analyse the historic environment and its relationship with wider events and developments.
• Paper 2 Section B interpretation and historic environment requirements: Write an essay judgement linked to the specified site using change, continuity, cause and/or consequence and a sustained, substantiated line of reasoning.