Mike Byrne Nick Shepley Britain AQA 1851 1964 A-level History Challenge and Transformation
AQA A-level History: Britain 1851-1964: Challenge and Transformation PART 1: VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN BRITAIN, C1851 1914 Chapter 1: Politics, political parties and the Irish Question, 1851 86 1. The political system in 1851 The Right to Vote The Political Parties The demand for and resistance to further Parliamentary Reform 2. Gladstone, Disraeli and the development of democratic politics. Gladstonian Liberalism and the development of the Liberal Party Disraelian Conservatism and Tory Democracy Parliamentary Reform and its impact 3. The Irish Question The nature and Origins of the Irish Question. The concept of Home Rule and it implications Gladstone s Irish Policy Chapter 2: The Economy, Society and Social Reform 1851-1886 1. The British Economy in 1851 Industry and Agriculture Economic policy and the rise of Free Trade The Mid-Victorian Boom and the onset of depressions 2. Society, Class and the problem of Poverty The Social Impact of Industrialization Managing Class Confrontation Managing the Challenge of Poverty 3. Social Reform 1851 86 Social reform movements and their impact The Emergence of Trade Unions Gladstone, Disraeli and Social Reform 1868-1886 Chapter 3: Parties, politics and the Irish Question, 1886 1914 1. Problems facing the Liberal Party and emergence of Conservative domination, 1886 1905 Liberal decline and Conservative ascendency New Liberalism
2. The Liberal revival constitutional crisis and reform, 1905 1914 Conservative decline and the General Election of 1906 Constitutional crisis and reform 3. The rise of the Labour movement and the emergence of the Labour Party Socialist revival and the emergence of the Labour Representation Committee The Taff Vale case and judgement Fortunes of the Labour Party, 1906 14 4. The Irish Question Gladstone and the failure of Home Rule Nationalist revival Impact of the Constitutional crisis Home Rule and the Ulster Crisis, 1912 14 Chapter 4: Reform and confrontation: society, social reform and the economy, 1886 1914 1. The impact of social change Rise of the trade unions Conservative/Unionist reforms 2. The Liberals and social reform, 1906 14 The Liberal reforms The emergence of a welfare state? 3. The women s suffrage campaign Emergence of the Suffragettes Campaign methods and government responses 4. Economic conditions and controversy, 1886 1914 The British economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Free trade or protection? Key questions part 1: Victorian and Edwardian Britain, c1851 1914
PART 2: THE WORLD WARS AND THEIR LEGACIES: BRITAIN, 1914 64 Chapter 5: War, Depression and Unemployment, 1914 29 1. The impact of the First World War on party politics, economics and society The Liberal Government in 1914 The Coalition Government The downfall of Asquith and the rise of Lloyd George 2. Political developments in the inter-war years The decline of the Liberals Extremist politics and the Depression 3. The condition of Ireland and Anglo-Irish relations Chapter 6: Depression, recovery and war 1929 39 1. Economic developments, 1914 39 Increased state role in wartime Post-war boom and depression Attempts to solve economic problems 2. The Great Depression and recovery 3. Social developments The development of mass culture in the 1930s Social policies Chapter 7: Britain and the Second World War, 1939 45 1. The outbreak of war and the rise of Chruchill The impact of war on Chamberlain s government and the return of Churchill to government The Norway debates and Chamberlain s fall Churchill s wartime cabinet 2. The Second World War and the British People Evacuation, rationing and wartime living standars Wartime unity, law and order and social class Wartime bombing and its effects 3. Britain s wartime economy Strikes and industrial relations Planning for the post-war era: the Beverage Report, Butler Act and Housing Act John Maynard Keynes and the American loan Britain s world role by 1945
Chapter 8: Post-war Britain, 1945 64 1. The Labour Government, 1945 51 Nationalisation Building the welfare state 2. Churchill and Eden, 1951 57 The post-war consensus The consumer boom Suez crisis and its aftermath 3. Macmillan s Government Revolt on the right Immigration Corporatism and the trade unions 4. The Labour Party from Gaitskell to Wilson Labour divisions Wilson s meritocratic vision of Britain 1964 General Election 5. British culture and society, 1945 64 Housing and town planning Working-class authors and film makers in the 1950s and 1960s The Americanisation of culture The cultural and social impact of Britain s changing world role Youth culture Changing life for women 6. Anglo-Irish relations after the Second World War Life for Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland The condition of the Irish Republic and Anglo-Irish relations Beginnings of the civil rights campaign Key questions part 2: The World Wars and their legacies: Britain 1914 1964 Glossary Further resources Index