Back to all chaptersChapter 3
A Long and Illustrious History
The key people, dates and events that shaped Britain, from early settlers to the modern era.
Topic 1
4 questionsThe Stone Age and the land bridge
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2 questionsStone Age and early Britain
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5 questionsThe first farmers, Stonehenge and Skara Brae
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4 questionsThe Bronze Age
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3 questionsBronze Age and Iron Age Britain
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5 questionsThe Iron Age: hill forts, Celtic language and the first coins
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5 questionsThe Roman invasions of Britain
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3 questionsThe Roman invasions: Caesar, Claudius and Boudicca
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3 questionsThe Romans in Britain (43-410 AD)
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3 questionsBoudicca's revolt against the Romans
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4 questionsHadrian's Wall and the Picts
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4 questionsRoman rule and the Romans leaving Britain
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2 questionsAnglo-Saxons and the spread of Christianity
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5 questionsThe Anglo-Saxons and Sutton Hoo
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5 questionsChristian missionaries: Patrick, Columba and Augustine
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2 questionsThe Vikings and Alfred the Great
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4 questionsThe Vikings: raids, the Danelaw and Danegeld
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4 questionsAlfred the Great, King Cnut and Kenneth MacAlpin
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2 questionsCnut, the Danelaw and Kenneth MacAlpin
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5 questionsNorman Conquest (1066)
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5 questionsThe Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings (1066)
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1 questionsThe Bayeux Tapestry
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1 questionsThe Domesday Book (1086)
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4 questionsThe Bayeux Tapestry and the Domesday Book
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3 questionsThe Middle Ages: a time of war
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3 questionsThe Middle Ages: wars and the Black Death
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2 questionsFeudalism and the medieval social order
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4 questionsThe beginnings of Parliament
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2 questionsCommon law and the development of Parliament
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4 questionsMagna Carta (1215)
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4 questionsMagna Carta (1215)
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4 questionsEngland and Wales in the Middle Ages
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2 questionsEdward I and the conquest of Wales
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2 questionsIreland in the Middle Ages: the Pale
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3 questionsScotland and Bannockburn (1314)
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4 questionsFeudalism and the Black Death (1348)
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4 questionsThe Crusades and the Hundred Years War
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2 questionsThe Hundred Years War and Agincourt
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1 questionsEnglish becomes the official language
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4 questionsEnglish language and culture in the Middle Ages
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1 questionsGeoffrey Chaucer and early English writing
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1 questionsWilliam Caxton and the printing press
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3 questionsCastles and cathedrals of the Middle Ages
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3 questionsThe Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)
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5 questionsThe Wars of the Roses (1455 to 1485)
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4 questionsHenry VII and the founding of the House of Tudor
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2 questionsHenry VII and the start of the Tudors
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4 questionsHenry VIII and the Church of England
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3 questionsHenry VIII and the break with Rome
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5 questionsThe six wives of Henry VIII
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2 questionsThe six wives of Henry VIII
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3 questionsThe Reformation and Protestant ideas
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2 questionsThe Reformation and Mary, Queen of Scots
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2 questionsTudor monarchs after Henry VIII
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4 questionsEdward VI and Mary I
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3 questionsElizabeth I and the Spanish Armada (1588)
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4 questionsElizabeth I and the Spanish Armada (1588)
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4 questionsThe Reformation in Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots
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1 questionsKey Tudor figures: Drake and the age of exploration
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3 questionsThe Elizabethan age: exploration and Sir Francis Drake
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5 questionsWilliam Shakespeare (1564 to 1616)
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1 questionsUnion of the Crowns (1603)
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3 questionsJames I and the Union of the Crowns (1603)
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2 questionsJames I, the Divine Right of Kings and the King James Bible
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3 questionsThe rise of Parliament and the Divine Right of Kings
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3 questionsIreland under the Tudors and Stuarts: plantations
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1 questionsPlantation of Ulster
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1 questionsGunpowder Plot (1605)
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1 questionsThe Pilgrim Fathers and the Mayflower (1620)
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5 questionsThe beginning of the English Civil War (1642)
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3 questionsEnglish Civil War and Oliver Cromwell
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5 questionsCromwell, the Commonwealth and the execution of Charles I
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4 questionsCromwell, Scotland and the oak tree escape
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5 questionsThe Restoration of Charles II (1660)
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2 questionsThe Restoration and key 17th-century laws
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2 questionsThe Restoration: Pepys, the Royal Society and Wren
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1 questionsIsaac Newton
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2 questionsThe Great Plague and Great Fire of London
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5 questionsThe Glorious Revolution of 1688
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2 questionsWilliam and Mary as joint monarchs
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2 questionsGlorious Revolution and Bill of Rights (1688-1689)
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5 questionsThe Bill of Rights of 1689
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3 questionsThe beginning of constitutional monarchy
Topic 84
3 questionsWhigs, Tories and the beginning of party politics
Topic 85
2 questionsThe growth of a free press
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3 questionsPocket boroughs and rotten boroughs
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2 questionsSettlers and refugees: Jews and Huguenots
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1 questionsImmigration through history: Huguenots and others
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2 questionsThe Battle of the Boyne and the Jacobites
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2 questionsQueen Anne and the question of succession
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1 questionsAct of Union with Scotland (1707)
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5 questionsThe Act of Union of 1707
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4 questionsGeorge I and the first Prime Minister
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1 questionsGeorge I and Prime Minister Robert Walpole
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1 questionsThe first Prime Minister: Robert Walpole
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4 questionsBonnie Prince Charlie and the Battle of Culloden (1746)
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2 questionsBonnie Prince Charlie and the Battle of Culloden (1746)
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3 questionsThe Highland Clearances
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1 questionsThe Enlightenment
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4 questionsThe Enlightenment and Scottish thinkers
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1 questionsRobert Burns, the Scottish Bard
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2 questionsJames Watt and steam power
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1 questionsThe Industrial Revolution
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3 questionsThe Industrial Revolution in Britain
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2 questionsRichard Arkwright and the Bessemer process
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1 questionsRichard Arkwright and the factory system
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2 questionsCanals and transport in the Industrial Revolution
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2 questionsInventions and engineers of the Industrial Revolution
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3 questionsBritain's overseas trade and the East India Company
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2 questionsCaptain Cook and the East India Company
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2 questionsSake Dean Mahomet
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1 questionsSake Dean Mahomet
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3 questionsThe slave trade
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6 questionsThe abolition of the slave trade and slavery
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1 questionsAbolition of slavery
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2 questionsFlorence Nightingale and social reformers
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1 questionsThe American colonies and the Boer War
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3 questionsThe American War of Independence
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2 questionsThe wars with France and Napoleon
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1 questionsAct of Union with Ireland (1801)
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2 questionsThe Act of Union with Ireland (1801)
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3 questionsThe crosses of the Union Flag
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1 questionsWhat the Union Flag combines
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4 questionsTrafalgar and Admiral Nelson (1805)
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4 questionsWaterloo and the Duke of Wellington (1815)
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2 questionsTrafalgar and Waterloo (Nelson and Wellington)
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4 questionsQueen Victoria and the Victorian Age
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1 questionsThe British Empire and the Victorian Age
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2 questionsThe British Empire at its height
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1 questionsThe Reform Act of 1832
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3 questionsThe Reform Act of 1832 and the right to vote
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2 questionsFree trade and the repeal of the Corn Laws (1846)
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1 questionsImproving factory working conditions
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1 questionsThe Great Exhibition of 1851
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2 questionsBritish industry in the 19th century
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2 questionsGeorge and Robert Stephenson and the railways
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2 questionsIsambard Kingdom Brunel and the Great Western Railway
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1 questionsIsambard Kingdom Brunel and the Great Western Railway
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3 questionsThe Crimean War (1853 to 1856)
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1 questionsThe Crimean War and the Victoria Cross
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3 questionsFlorence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing
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1 questionsThe Crimean War and Florence Nightingale
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2 questionsThe Chartists and the Reform Act of 1867
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2 questionsMarried women's property rights
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3 questionsIreland in the 19th century: famine and Home Rule
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1 questionsCharles Dickens and Victorian literature
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1 questionsRudyard Kipling
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2 questionsRudyard Kipling and the Empire
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2 questionsThe Boer War (1899 to 1902)
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2 questionsThe early 20th century and social reform
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1 questionsEmmeline Pankhurst and the suffragettes
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3 questionsEmmeline Pankhurst and the suffragettes
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2 questionsWomen's right to vote
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3 questionsWomen winning the vote (1918 and 1928)
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2 questionsThe First World War (1914-1918)
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2 questionsThe start of the First World War
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4 questionsThe First World War (1914 to 1918)
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2 questionsThe Battle of the Somme and the Armistice
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3 questionsThe Battle of the Somme and the Armistice
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3 questionsHome Rule and the Easter Rising
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1 questionsThe Easter Rising and the partition of Ireland
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4 questionsThe partition of Ireland (1921 to 1922)
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2 questionsIreland: division and the Good Friday Agreement
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1 questionsBetween the wars: the Great Depression
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3 questionsThe inter-war years and the Great Depression
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2 questionsThe Second World War: Hitler and the start of the war
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3 questionsThe start of the Second World War (1939)
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5 questionsThe Second World War and Churchill (1939-1945)
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3 questionsWinston Churchill, the wartime leader
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3 questionsDunkirk (1940)
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2 questionsDunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz
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2 questionsThe Battle of Britain (1940)
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2 questionsThe Blitz
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2 questionsThe wider Second World War and the Holocaust
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2 questionsBritain in the 20th century: wars and recovery
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2 questionsD-Day and the end of the Second World War
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3 questionsD-Day and victory in 1945
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2 questionsAlexander Fleming and penicillin
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1 questionsPenicillin: Alexander Fleming
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4 questions20th-century British inventions: radar, the jet engine and the web
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3 questions20th-century British inventions
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3 questionsMore 20th-century inventions: the hovercraft and Concorde
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1 questionsThe Beveridge Report and the welfare state
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3 questionsThe Butler Education Act of 1944
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3 questionsThe post-war welfare state and the Beveridge Report
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1 questionsClement Attlee and the post-war welfare state
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3 questionsFounding of the NHS (1948)
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3 questionsThe founding of the NHS (1948)
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1 questionsAneurin Bevan and the NHS
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1 questionsPost-war immigration to the UK
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2 questionsPost-war immigration
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2 questionsNATO and the post-war years
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2 questionsDecolonisation and joining the EEC
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3 questionsDecolonisation and the Commonwealth
Topic 195
1 questionsThe Swinging Sixties
Topic 196
2 questionsTrade unions and the economy in the 1970s
Topic 197
3 questionsMargaret Thatcher and the Falklands (1982)
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4 questionsMargaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman Prime Minister
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1 questionsMargaret Thatcher's government
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1 questionsTony Blair, devolution and Northern Ireland peace
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2 questionsDevolution (1999)
Topic 202
3 questionsConflicts in the Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq
Topic 203
4 questionsThe UK leaves the European Union
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