Historic Environment, 2025: Model Answer

Describe how to answer a 16-mark GCSE History Historic Environment question.
Explain how to get Level 4 in the 16-mark GCSE History Historic Environment question.
Lesson Objective: what does Hardwick Hall reflect about Elizabethan England?

AQA GCSE History: British Depth Studies: Elizabethan England, c1568–c1603 - Historic Environment, 2025 - Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.

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2024 P8: +0.49
2023 P8: +0.25
2022 P8: +0.87 and +0.33
2021 P8: +1.42
2020 P8: +0.47
2019 P8: +0.57

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