Crime, punishment and protest is one of the fastest-growing GCSE history courses in England and Wales. It is a study in development over a period of over 500 years, and part of the Schools History Project (SHP) GCSE syllabus.

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Early Modern Britain

1500-1750

Industrial Britain

1750-1900

Twentieth Century

1900-1999

Exam Papers

Paper 2 Revision Guide

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Revision: Zipped Files

Revision Booklet 28kb

Paper 2 Revision Guide 188kb (2004)

Past Exam Questions 7kb

You learn what crimes have made the news through time - and what the authorities have tried to do about them!

What has made the people of this island rise up and demand change? You'll study the protest movements from Kett through to the Poll Tax Protests.

Have we gone 'soft' on crime? You will also explore how our attitudes to punishment have changed over the centuries.

How have these changed? Crime, Protest, Punishment and Policing.

What happened in?

Early-Modern

c.1500-1750

Kett's Rebellion, Pilgrimage of Grace, Gunpowder Plot, Vagabonds, Poaching, Smuggling, Highwaymen, Witchcraft, Corporal Punishment, Bloody Code........more

Industrial Britain

c.1750-1900

Theft and robbery, Poverty, Police, Transportation, Prisons, Luddites, Peterloo, Swing Riots, Tolpuddle, Rebecca, Chartism, Prison Reformers, DockStrike....

....more

Twentieth Century

1900-2000

Suffrage Movement, Conscientious Objectors, General Strike, Hanging, Youth Detention, Fingerprinting, DNA, Surveillance, Drug Crime, Hooliganism, Community Service, Race Crime.........more

Who were?

Robert Aske, Matthew Hopkins, Jonathan Wild, Dick Turpin, John Fielding, John Howard, Elizabeth Fry, Derek Bentley........more

The Victorians believed in the existence of a 'Criminal Class' - that the 'crime gene' was passed down through the generations.

Much mileage was made of the shape and size of the skulls of prisoners - this was called 'phrenology'.

The photographs above and those in the linked pages are examples of some of the

''evidence' gathered by Victorian Criminologists.

Prisons of Britain - A Bird's Eye View

HMP Forestbank, Manchester

Click here or the above picture to

visit this galley of gaols

as you've never seen them before!

Havin' a Smashing Time!

Why the machine breakers struck terror into the hearts of the authorities

The Story of the Luddites

Use a Timeline

in class and at home

Watch this Movie to see how easy it is to make

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Click to enlarge a pic

of part of the timeline

on my classroom wall