History
Year 11 Mock 2 2026

Friday 6 February

Migrants in Britain, c800 - present and Notting Hill, c1948 - c1970 1h 20m paper

Section A: Historic environment

Students answer a question that assesses knowledge plus a two-part question based on two provided sources.

Section B: Thematic study

Students answer three questions that assess their knowledge and understanding. The first two questions are compulsory. For the third question, students answer one from a choice of two essays.

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Migration in England c800–c1500

Context for migration: Vikings, Normans, Jews and other European traders, landownership, wool industry, monarchy, England as part of Christendom
Experience and impact of migrants: legal status of ‘aliens’ and Black Death, Danelaw, culture, trade and built environment
Case study: City of York under the Vikings

Migration in England c1500–c1700

Context for migration: migrants from Europe and Africa, cloth industry, global trading, privateering, England as a Protestant nation
Experience and impact of migrants: relations with authority and population, impact on culture, trade, industry and agriculture
Case studies: Sandwich and Canterbury and Flemish and Walloon migrants, experience of Huguenots

Migration in Britain c1700–c1900

Context for migration: reasons for migration, migration from Ireland, Europe and Empire, Industrial Revolution, transatlantic slave trade, British Empire
Experience and impact of migrants: relations with authority and population, media
Case studies: Liverpool and Irish migrants, Jewish migrants in East End of London

Migration in Britain c1900–present

Context for migration: migrants in Ireland, Europe, British Empire and Commonwealth, refugee and asylum seekers, World Wars, decolonisation, EU, Aliens Act and British Nationality Acts
Experience and impact of migrants: relations with authority and population, anti-immigration and equal rights movements, Race Relations Act, media
Case studies: experience of migrants in Bristol and Asian migrants in Leicester