History AS Specification
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AS History7041
1D Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1649
This option allows students to study in breadth issues of change, continuity, cause and consequence in this period through the following key questions:
- How far did the monarchy change?
- To what extent and why was power more widely shared during this period?
- Why and with what results were there disputes over religion?
- How effective was opposition?
- How important were ideas and ideology?
- How important was the role of key individuals and groups and how were they affected by developments?
Absolutism Challenged: Britain, 1603–1649
Monarchs and Parliaments, 1603–1629
- The Political Nation and the social basis of power: the importance of land ownership; rival forms of wealth including merchants
- James I: character and views on monarchy; court and favourites; Charles I: character and views on monarchy; court and favourites
- The financial weakness of the Crown and attempts to reform and strengthen royal finance
- Religion and religious divisions: challenges to the Church of England from Catholics and Puritans and the development of Arminianism
- Relations and disputes with parliaments: parliamentary privileges; finance; religion; foreign affairs
- The state of relations between Crown and Parliament by 1629 and the reaction of the Political Nation; the extent of breakdown between Crown and Parliament and the Political Nation
Revolution, 1629–1649
- Divisions over religion: Arminianism and Laudianism; Puritanism and the emergence of Millenarianism
- Political divisions: the Personal Rule and the extent of opposition to it in England, Scotland and Ireland; the Short and Long Parliaments and the leadership of Pym; divisions and the outbreak of Civil War
- The First and Second Civil Wars: England, Scotland, Ireland and the reasons for royalist defeat
- Social divisions: the emergence of political and religious radicalism in the 1640s; the Levellers and Millenarian groups
- Post-war divisions between Army and Parliament and the failure to secure a post-war settlement
- Regicide: the basis for regicide and the King’s response