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Led by John Keegan Simulacrum
A British thematic study for OCR GCSE History A — over a thousand years of the relationship between war and British society, traced through the impact of war on people and on the bond between governments and the governed.
Led by John Keegan Simulacrum
The question
What did the early wars of raid and conquest do to the people who lived through them? You will study the Viking raids and the responses to them, the Norman Conquest and the feudal system as a military settlement, the breakdowns of feudal order under Stephen and John, and the costs and effects of medieval warfare on society — using the four themes throughout.
Outcome
You can explain the relationship between war and society c.790–c.1500, and use the four themes to set up comparison with later eras.
Led by John Keegan Simulacrum
The question
How did foreign war and civil war affect British society differently? You will study Elizabeth I's wars with Spain and the role of privateers, warfare on the English–Scottish borders, the Civil Wars of 1642–1651 across England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Jacobite Wars and the repression of Scotland that followed.
Outcome
You can explain the relationship between war and society c.1500–c.1750, weighing how wars fought abroad and civil wars at home produced different effects on people and on the bond between government and people.
Led by John Keegan Simulacrum
The question
How did the arrival of "total war" reshape the relationship between the state and its people? You will study the imperial wars of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean and Boer Wars, the World Wars and the coming of total war, and the post-1945 conflicts from the Cold War to the IRA campaigns and the Iraq War.
Outcome
You can explain the relationship between war and society c.1750–c.2010 and make a supported judgement about continuity and change across the full thousand-year span of the study.