Migration to and from Britain 1572-1860

A power point lesson designed to help GCSE students revise for Thematic Study AC of AQA GCSE History: Migration, Empires and the People.

The powerpoint focuses on three cases:

• The Huguenot Migrations (including the Elizabethan Strangers, the two major waves of French Huguenots, and the Palatine Germans).
• The Ulster Plantations.
• The Highland Clearances.

The powerpoint is framed around two key inquiry questions that will help students consolidate their subject knowledge and second-order concepts.

It also includes an activity designed to support students to organise information according to the key factors identified in the course:

• Economics
• Politics
• Religion
• War
• Ideas
• Technology
• Role of Individuals

Finally, the powerpoint offers the students a helpful structure and advice on how to answer Questions 2 (importance) and 3 (similarity) of paper 2A.