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A changing empire

A changing empire

Timeline from 1857 to 1965 marking the Indian Uprising, Egypt 1882, the world wars, major independence milestones and Southern Rhodesia UDI, linked to governance, opposition, imperial impact and international relations

This course is a thematic study, so you track change across more than a century rather than telling one country's story. The key pattern is that the Empire changed form, from Company rule and conquest to mandates, trusteeship, and decolonisation.

From Colonialism to Independence: The British Empire 1857–1965 Lesson

  1. A Level
  2. /History
  3. /From Colonialism to Independence: The British Empire 1857–1965

Step-by-step lessons covering OCR A Level History From Colonialism to Independence: The British Empire 1857–1965 for A Level History. Each lesson works through exam-style questions in Unit group 1, Unit group 2 and Unit group 3, plus the Y100 non-exam assessment format. 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.

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