The big picture
The big picture

This topic is a thematic study, so you should follow change and continuity across the whole period rather than treat each reign as a separate story. The timeline keeps the two main strands together: royal government and Crown-Church relations.
Step-by-step lessons on OCR A Level History English Government and the Church 1066–1216. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Build a secure grasp of the outline narrative for your breadth and depth periods first, since the source-evaluation and historical-interpretations questions that carry a large share of the marks depend on that contextual knowledge.