Change and continuity
What Change and continuity means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The idea that between 1700 and 1900 Britain saw both shifts and things that stayed the same in the reasons for migration and patterns of settlement.
Structural and practical changes occurred, yet the Church remained largely Catholic in doctrine, as seen in the Act of Six Articles in 1539.
The idea that migration reasons and settlement patterns both altered and stayed the same across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Topics that use Change and continuity
- Option 13: c1700–c1900: Migration in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain - 1 The context for migration (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option 13: c1900–present: Migration in modern Britain - 1 The context for migration (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option B3: Key topic 3: The Reformation and its impact, 1529–40 - 2 Opposition to, and impact of, Reformation, 1534–40 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Aliens Act (1905)
- Economic migration
- Forced displacement
- Ideas and beliefs
- Imperial connections
- Imperialism and global trade
- Opposition and resistance
- Power and authority
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