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Lower Sixth

Lower Sixth will study THREE modules and spend approximately NINE weeks on each module

Module One
Confrontation in England 1603-1629

1. Political developments:-

a.       Financial Policies – evaluation and reasons for their success/failure

b.      Foreign Policies – evaluation and reasons for success/failure

c.       Role and impact of royal favourites, especially Buckingham

2. Economic and Cultural Developments 1603-1629

a.       The extent of population, agrarian and industrial changes

b.      Witchcraft

c.       Religious beliefs and practice – the Church of England, Puritanism, Catholicism and evaluation of royal policy

Module Two
The English Civil War 1629-1653

1. Political Aspects

a.       The nature of the Personal Rule

b.      Reasons for Parliament’s victory by 1646

c.       Reasons for execution of the King

2. Cultural differentiation and crisis:-

a.       The culture of the Caroline court (‘popery, painting and play acting’), Charles, Laud, Arminianism and Laudianism

b.      The religious, political, economic and social dimensions of Puritanism and its opposition to Charles I to 1649, Pym.

c.       The emergence of the radical political and religious groups such as the Levellers, Fifth Monarchists, Quakers, Ranters and Diggers; their ideas and significance.

Module Three
Colonisation in Ireland 1609-1636

1. The Ulster Plantation to c. 1636:-

a.       The Flight of the Earls

b.      The objectives of the Plantation – to impose British political, economic and cultural forms on Ulster

c.       Political change – land confiscations and boroughs

d.      Economic changes – allocation of land, demographic changes, urbanisation, commercial developments

e.       Cultural change – language, primogeniture, legal codes and religious diversification

f.        Evaluation – success or failure of the project by c. 1636

2. The clash of (new English’ and ‘Old English’ cultures: Ireland 1613-1636)

a.       The 1613-1615 Parliament, the Jacobean plantations outside Ulster and the Court of Wards

b.      The Graces

c.       The administration of Wentworth to 1636

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