History A-Level
Religious and regional grievance
What Religious and regional grievance means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Religious and regional grievance
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Read the wording for your board, then hide it and explain Religious and regional grievance in your own words. Rough notes are fine. This is a self-check, with no mark or grade.
Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Northern Earls showed risings could combine religious grievance, regional identity and elite leadership.
Topics that use Religious and regional grievance
- State control and popular resistance, 1509–88 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Central versus local authority
- Coercion and consent in Tudor rule
- Government intelligence and repression
- Local versus national responses to poverty
- Popular rebellion and elite leadership
- Social and economic change
- State repression versus charity
- Taxation and consent
Using Religious and regional grievance in the exam
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