Teach any OCR B module: The Elizabethans, 1580–1603, no prep needed!
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Component 1: British Depth study, The Elizabethans, 1580–1603
What students need to learn:
- Elizabeth and government - Issue: The power of the queen
- Elizabeth and her court: patronage, the Privy Council and the rebellion of the Earl of Essex
- Elizabeth and her parliaments including opposition from Puritans
- Elizabeth and her people including local government and propaganda
- Catholics - Issue: The nature and extent of a Catholic threat
- The enforcement of Elizabeth’s religious settlement after 1580
- Catholic links abroad, plots against Elizabeth, and the Elizabethan spy network
- Mary Queen of Scots, the Armada and war with Spain
- Daily lives - Issue: The nature and dynamics of Elizabethan society
- The contrasting lives of rich, middling and poor Elizabethans
- Family life: husbands and wives, parents and children, wider kinship
- Poverty: its causes, Elizabethan explanations and responses
- Popular culture Issue: “Merry England”?
- Theatres and their opponents
- The Puritan attack on popular pastimes
- The persecution of witches
- The wider world Issue: The nature and significance of England’s connections with the wider world
- Imperial ambition: the motives and achievements of Elizabethan adventurers
Roanoke: England’s attempt at an American colony - Trade with the east, including first contacts with India
- Imperial ambition: the motives and achievements of Elizabethan adventurers
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