a sailor who travelled between Britain and its colonies, working in the engine room of ships - quite often in dangerous and inhumane conditions

someone who believes in a form of Protestantism that argued that the Reformation needed to go further and that Protestants needed to strictly adhere to all core beliefs and practices

to be given the same rights as a citizen of a nation

Migration to early modern England

History

The Viking conquest

Case study: Viking York

The Norman Conquest

Jewish migration in medieval England

Merchants and craftspeople in medieval England

Migration in medieval England

England in the early modern period

Case study: Flemish and Walloon migrants in Sandwich and Canterbury

African migrants in the early British Empire

Jewish migrants in the early modern period

Case study: Huguenots

Palatine refugees in the early 1700s

The Industrial Revolution and internal migration

European migration in the 18th and 19th centuries

The British Empire and migration to Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries

Case study: Liverpool in the 19th century

Case study: Jewish migrants in the East End

Migration to 18th and 19th century Britain

The World Wars and colonial migrants

Post-war migration to Britain

The end of empire, the Commonwealth and changing patterns of migration

Race relations in 20th century Britain

The EU and changing patterns of migration

Refugees and asylum seekers in modern Britain

Case studies: Bristol and Leicester

Migration to modern Britain

In this unit, pupils learn about either migrants in Britain or medicine in Britain over a period of roughly 1000 years. They examine one of these themes, analysing the impact it had in Medieval, Early Modern, Industrial and Modern Britain, with a particular focus on change and continuity.

Thematic studies

Discriminatory behaviour or images, whether on the grounds of race, gender, disability, religion or belief or sexual orientation, or otherwise.

Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

Historic or outdated representations of people that may portray inequality or injustice.

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Which word describes someone who believes in a form of Protestantism that argues that the Reformation needed to go further?

Which of the following are not examples of migrant groups who settled in early modern England as a result of religious reasons?

Which of the following are examples of migrant groups who settled in early modern England as a result of economic reasons?

How many Huguenots were able to naturalise?

Which Protestant migrant group did not have an entirely positive experience in early modern England?

Match the type of impact to the early modern migrant group.

Who led a small group of Palatines from central Europe to England, and then onto Carolina in North America in 1708?

Protestants fleeing religious persecution

Which of the following groups made up the Palatine refugees who migrated to England in 1709?

Complete the sentence with the correct fraction: Palatines had a largely negative experience once the government and Church realised that {{}} were Catholics.

Most were overqualified for the types of jobs available in England.

Most had been poor, unskilled labourers in central Europe.

Under the Poor Law, many were considered vagrants.

They were persecuted against as England was a Catholic country.

Why did most Palatine migrants struggle to make a living on arriving in England?

How many Palatines were able to migrate to North America by 1715?

Complete the sentence: Most of the Palatine refugees who migrated to North America by 1715 were sent as {{}} and so did not find the life of opportunity that they hoped for.

Migration to early modern England

Lesson outcome

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