Paper 2: Britain 1900-1918

This page currently contains short video clips from the BBC learning zone archive that will help you revise for questions about Britain in the First World War. For students at Little Heath School this is paper 2.

The Liberal Reforms

Health and British Society (BBC video)
Britain before the war, including the class system (BBC video)

BBC Bitesize revision notes

How did the First World War affect British society?

A look at class at the beginning of the war (BBC video)
Why did men volunteer for the army? (A general BBC video, an in-depth look at the Pals Battalions)
Women and war work (BBC video 1, BBC video 2)
Change to industry (BBC video 3)
What had changed by the end of the war? (A BBC video which shows the changes, and how it differed by class)

BBC Bitesize revision notes

Why did women get the vote in 1918?

Why did women become suffragettes? (BBC interview)
A suffragist talks about a suffragette (BBC video)
Suffragette methods (BBC interview looking at militancy)
Christabel Pankhurst and the WSPU (BBC interview about the suffragettes) 
Women and the war (BBC video)
Good overall summary from the BBC television news

BBC bitesize revision notes

Good sourcework exercises can be completed on the National Archive ‘Learning Curve’ webiste.