MIGRATION

7.2 Conclusion: how glorious was the revolution?
Studying the historic environment
Areas of study
Patterns of Migration
FOCUS
In the first two parts of this book you have studied British history from two
perspectives:
in overview – migration to Britain over a 1,000-year period
• in depth – the impact of empire in Britain over a 40-year period.
Your course includes a third kind of history that links to both these studies – local
history – a study of the Historic Environment. This brief topic outlines what you
might study, how it links to the rest of your course and how it will be assessed.
Look around your village, town or city and you will
find clues to the lives of people who have arrived,
settled and moved on over the centuries. This is
especially true in Britain’s ports, which were so
often immigrants’ place of first landing. To give you
a deeper understanding of how migration has left its
mark on our environment, you will study one of the
urban port areas shown on this map:
See Topics
3.3 and 4.4.
Emigration:
Ports are places
of departure as well
as arrival. People left
the UK for new lives
elsewhere.
Entrepreneurs
and thinkers:
Enterprising men and
women from all over the
world came in search of
opportunity and made
their mark.
See
‘Migration to
Britain’ Topics
3.2 and 4.1.
Trade and
empire: Seamen
from Asia, Africa and
the West Indies were
hired by the merchant
shipping lines and
many settled in
British ports.
Migration
to Britain
Employment:
People came to
find work from Ireland,
Scotland and southern
Europe in the nineteenth
century, from Asia, Africa
and the Caribbean in the late
twentieth century and from
the European Union in the
twenty-first century.
See Topics
3.3, 4.3 and 4.4.
Enslavement:
Cities grew rich from
the profits of slavery:
some enslaved Africans
were brought here by
sea against their will.
Refugees:
People seeking
safety included
seventeenth-century
Huguenots, nineteenthcentury
Jews
and refugees from late
twentieth and twentyfirst
century
conflicts.
See Topics
2.3 and 3.1.
See Topics
2.1, 3.3 and 4.2.
Uncorrected proof
Migration links
Your investigation will reveal
a wealth of stories, telling us
not only of human lives but
also of key chapters in Britain’s
history. This will give you a
deeper understanding of major
themes in your thematic study
on Migration to Britain.
Empire links
You will find, too, that the
depth study on the Impact of
Empire helps you understand
the context: how Britain
developed the wealth that
enabled these five places to
grow, develop and attract
migrants.
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The assessment
Your task
Your task will be to explore one location – either in person
or virtually – and use your history detective skills to uncover
what that place tells us about people who have moved there
over the past few centuries.
You will need to find out:
• when people came, where they came from and why they
came
how they were received in the area
what their life there was like
key events in the area’s migration history
• the impact of migration on the area.
You will need to:
• study the area as it now and how it was in the past, looking
for what has changed and what has stayed the same, and
why
•
find out how the area’s migration story is told in local
museums, archives and tourist information.
Support
To help you do this you will have an online pack provided
by OCR (your exam board) with maps, timelines, extracts
from interviews, photographs and documents such as official
records, newspaper clippings and advertisements. This pack is
an essential resource and guide.
The questions will be in the same paper as the questions on the Impact of Empire
depth study. There will be two questions and you are expected to spend about 30
minutes in total answering them.
The first question carries 10 marks:
5 marks for what you know and understand
• 5 marks for how you explain and analyse.
You will be asked to explain something – for example, why people came, or how
they were treated, or what impact they had on the area. You should spend 15
minutes on this question.
The second question also carries 10 marks and should also take about 15 minutes.
You will be given sources and asked which source is more useful for a particular
enquiry. You will need to analyse the sources and make a judgement about them.
You will also need to show good knowledge and understanding of what the sources
refer to.
Here are examples of the kinds of sources you may be asked to compare:
• a description by a visitor to the area in the early 1700s and a photograph of the
same area in the early 1900s
• a modern photograph of a place of worship used by a migrant community since
the nineteenth century and how it is described in a tourist leaflet
• a photograph of people in a street in the 1950s and maps of the same street in the
1890s and 1950s
• a trade directory from the early 1900s showing businesses along a stretch of high
street, and a photograph of the shops along that stretch of road today
•
a newspaper clipping about a key event and an eyewitness account of the same
event.
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