What questions could you be asked?

How much has the economy changed? – New structure

What was the biggest change in the economy? – Old structure
Was x the biggest change in the economy? – Old structure
How much had x changed? – New structure
How significantly did x change Britain’s economy? – New structure
What was the biggest change in x? – Old structure
Was x the biggest change in y? – Old structure
 Change & continuity structure

Try to look at BOTH sides of the argument in these questions.

You DO NOT just want to argue that there is only change!
 How to choose evidence for change &
continuity questions
You MUST show how things developed. In other words, how things
were at the beginning of the period and how they were at the end/
developed during the period/
This means choosing evidence from across the time period.
A CEASE/ CEACE structure is still applicable BUT…
For the EVIDENCE and SUPPORT/ COUNTER you need to choose
evidence from the beginning of the period AND towards the end to
show if things have/ have not changed.
 Choosing your evidence
• The level of detail – is it precise or vague?
• Relevance – does it really relate to the factor/ claim you are making?
• Does it link in to other pieces of evidence – does it reinforce a piece of
evidence, thus strengthening the argument, or does it counter the evidence,
thus demonstrating a counter-argument and indicating the weakness of that
factor?
• How does the evidence compare to the context – are there more important
pieces of evidence that better prove the claim
• Across the period – does it show how things have/ have not changed?
• Short-term & Long-term impact - what evidence seems the most important?
 Thinking about explaining
First-step
Identify simply if things changed and outline what
the change was
Second-step
Analyse the significance of this change. Think
about:
• Remarkability – how significant is the change at the
time? Is it a rapid and substantial change from what
has come before?
• Resonance – does it indicate a long-term shift in the
focus and nature of the economy?
CRUCIALLY, think about showing a causal
relationship – how did the area you identified
CAUSE the economy to transform?
Things to consider:
• Is the technique/ change new?
• Is their significant growth?
• Are there changes in the nature/ practice of
the area of the economy?
• Impact on resources brought into England
and trade?
• Impact on role and growth of London?
• Impact on markets exploited/ used by
England?
• Impact on other areas of the economy?
• Extent to which it would cause the economy
to grow?
 Looking at change in Britain's economy
1. For each area of economy, go through
your notes and evaluate the following:
a) The extent to which it changed/ economy
changed
b) The most significant change
2. Identify 3 factors you can use to answer
each part above
3. Select 3-4 pieces of SFD for each factor
that will support your answers to part 1
Areas
• Agriculture (new techniques,
enclosures, water meadows,
employment, national
markets)
• Cloth trade
• Growth of London (banking
& insurance)
• Imperial expansion (North
America & Caribbean,
Navigation Act, Anglo-Dutch
rivalry, EIC, Slave trade)
 Proposed tobacco
imports from Virginia
grew from 55,000 lbs in
1620 to 1,600,000 lbs in
1638
Between 1652-55
Robert Abbott, the
founder of money-
scrivening, saw
£1,137,646 pass
through his account
The number of slaves
in English colonies in
the Americas grew
from none in 1640 to
120,000 by 1700

Farmers began to
Husbandmen were specialise by
slow to take up producing produce
specialisation and new that suited their local
techniques as they conditions. For
often produced too example, farmers in
little to make a the South East began
substantial profit and to specialise in
were cautious about growing wheat and
taking risks oats