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OCR A Level History
Series editors: Nicholas Fellows and Mike Wells
Build understanding and skills in A Level History
through the in-depth analysis and structured
support in this tailor-made series for OCR’s British
Period Studies and Enquiries
• Develops analytical skills through organising the narrative content
around the key issues that need to be explored
• Promotes proficiency in the skills required to do well through
structured activities and support with answering exam-style
questions
• Builds a sound historical understanding of the period, with a wealth
of extracts and sources that offer opportunities to practise the skills
needed for the Enquiry
• Encourages students to review, revise and reflect on material
studied through chapter summaries and revision activities
Churchill’s view
Enquiry
1929 –51
topic: Churchill
ces and how they
erstanding sour
Study skills: Und
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aching evidence.
key skills in appro
show
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link it to the issue
ple below
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issue. In the exam
to interpret eviden
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because
saying about that
the evidence is
e prime minister
and decide what
er Churchill becam
es to lead.
question is wheth
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the issue in the
had
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thinking
that
believed
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l the evidence
his contemporaries
be.
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how
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er
to consid
and how typica
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it was written
it is also
but
why
it,
1940
in
wrote
ion
carefully of who
of the whole situat
is a skill
involves knowledge evidence. The use of knowledge
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it is helpful to ask
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ers.
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oped in the next
a position to know
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this evidence in
n who produced
’
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a certain view?
or she might hold
a reason why he
hill became prime
about how Churc
ing four sources
Look at the follow
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how far they suppo
minister in 1940.
context, assess
their historical
in
because he was
es
1940
sourc
in
minister
Using these
hill became prime
the view that Churc
the job.
best person for
thought to be the
hill.
le view of Churc
has an unfavourab
r in the Admiralty
certain
Source A An office
Winston. I’m quite e prime
that arch-idiot
influence from
months to becom
of the last eight
I dread any more
his refusal
d the whole war
the war. Witness
win
to
g
still
that he has playe
helpin
of
. The high ups
at the expense
st the Air Force
again
minister, often
Navy
nds of the
in Norway.
to back the dema
Narvik campaign
1940.
on with the mad
tions, diary, 9 May
of Naval Opera
insist on going
Acting Director
1987, page 260.
Example
Quoted in David
Irving, Churchill’s
War,
1938 over
who resigned in
cabinet minister
r Conservative
minister.
Source B A forme
hill became prime
view of why Churc
berlain’s
Munich gives a
Belgium. Cham
ed Holland and
e to remain as
Germans invad
excus
the
an
him
1940
On 10 May
le event gave
re the
that this terrib
office can acqui
first reaction was shows how men in very high
events only
This
aded that the
persu
was
He
prime minister.
ced.
hill and Lord
cannot be repla
lay between Churc
belief that they
tly. The choice
He had shown
d depar t urgen
ly since 1939.
meant he shoul
had risen sharp
speeches in the
hill’s reputation
Admiralty. His
Halifax. Churc
that he
First Lord of the
thing
etent
Every
comp
gues.
himself a highly
any of his collea
had merely
been better than
ly true. Halifax
Commons had
come disastrous
us.
in the past had
choice was obvio
had prophesied
281.
of Munich. The
Forget, 1953, page
foreign minister
Cooper, Old Men
remained the
Duff
the events
s his reaction to
e politician recall
inent Conservativ
ter.
Source C A prom
nt as prime minis
hill’s appointme
Labour
preceding Churc
given out. The
was
stay
to
tions
in a new
berlain’s inten
willing to serve
The news of Cham
, said they were
and Greenwood
leaders, Attlee
of events, 1929
–34
was left in
in. The Cabinet
under Chamberla knew that the task of
nment but not
national gover
be and Churchill
attitude would
him.
doubt what their
certainly fall on
page 371.
nment would
Political Life, 1955,
forming a gover
Leo Amery, My
ary
Churchill’s secret
went on to be
secretary who
comments when
n’s
added
berlai
He
Cham
May.
Source D
on on 10
the King’s decisi
recalls in his diary
published.
Halifax,
the diaries were
nately because
for Winston (fortu
The King has sent
st!).
Friday 10 May
off to the denti
gone
had
form
true to
minister. The King
x.
Halifax to be prime
Halifa
liked
rred
have
have prefe
n would
Mr Chamberlai
Churchill and would a letter sent by
d the change to
d by
certainly dislike
was represente
Mr
rvative circles
on to work with
x,
The feeling in Conse
g I would not go
berlain and Halifa
Cham
my mother hopin
to
with
Mary
met
n
Quee
when he
sending for
ton told me that
should suggest
Churchill. Wins
King asks me I
se Mr Churchill.’
to Halifax ‘if the
he would propo
Chamberlain said
x said if asked
page 87
minister. Halifa
1939–1955, 1985,
you to be prime
ng Street Diaries
Jock Colville, The
Fringes of Power
: Downi
for
ple has been done
sources. One exam n; this is to help you
nce of the four
inatio
lish the basic releva
this in the exam
help you estab
necessarily do
You would not
1 This table will
for sources B–D.
sources.
you. Fill it in the
the
e
reting
sourc
the
skill of interp
Evidence from
to develop the
Understanding
the sources
of key issue
best man for the
Source View
Churchill was the hill has low
not think that
. It thinks Churc
This source does
A
view of his ability schemer who has put his
ious
job and has a low
and is an ambit
intellectual ability
first.
sts
intere
own
nce
useful the evide
to consider how
it,
2 You will need
lly of who wrote
thinking carefu
is. This involves
l it might be. This
n and how typica
ion
why it was writte
of the whole situat
ledge
know
es
really involv
to look at the
also impor tant
is
it
to
but
on
positi
1940
in
in a
Was the person
a
type of evidence.
or she might hold
a reason why he
know? Is there
certain view?
ion
quest
to
be a good idea
To help you it might is to test the evidence. For
idea
ask
the sources. The
ions you could
are some quest
example, here
about Source B:
was
on to know what
Cooper in a positi
●● Was Duff
r
going on?
his being a forme
significance of
October
●● What is the
out of office since
ter,
minis
et
cabin
r of
1938?
less than the autho
know more or
●● Would he
Source D?
‘arch-idiot’
to become PM
the whole war’
He has ‘played
his own
ign is ‘mad’ and
The Norway campa ‘at the expense of
come
ambitions have
winning the war’
or might he
‘neutral’ obser ver
Would he be a
Churchill?
st
be favourable to
sources here sugge
Do any of the other
ent from his view?
anything differ
Duff Cooper’s
make
might
ing that
●● Is there anyth
le?
credib
e
view more or less
l of Conservativ
this view is typica
●● Do you think
n?
political opinio
about Sources
would you ask
What questions
D?
A, C and
your own
r you need to apply
xt. This is the
3 To get furthe
historical conte
knowledge of the
the following
be developed in
these sources,
next skill and will
However, to test
chapter (page 00). knowledge might be used.
of
confirm
discuss what sorts
might
knowledge
For example, what
Source B for
in
given
ns
reaso
or challenge the
knowledge might
chosen? What
ambition?
Churchill being
his abilities and
about
views
the
confirm
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17
16
This example of the progressive skills support given throughout the
Enquiry unit is taken from the Enquiry topic: Churchill: 1929–51
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