History GCSE

Civilian experience

What Civilian experience means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.

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Warfare increasingly impacted civilians through intense recruitment drives and the requisitioning of supplies and transport.

Pearson Edexcel · Option 12: c1700–c1900: Warfare and British society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - 2 The experience of war (study guide)

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Option 12: c1700–c1900: Warfare and British society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - 2 The experience of war (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)

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