OCR A Level History A Britain 1930-1997 2025 Question Paper

Download the official OCR A-Level History A Britain 1930–1997 question paper for the June 2025 examination series (Y113/01). This advanced OCR History paper explores Winston Churchill, India policy, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, trade unions, miners’ strikes, and post-war British politics within the OCR A-Level History specification.

Section A focuses on Churchill 1930–1951 and requires students to analyse historical sources concerning whether Churchill was out of touch with British opinion on India during the 1930s. The paper includes source evaluation, provenance analysis, and contextual interpretation using speeches, letters, parliamentary debate, and commentary from Conservative Party figures and supporters of the British Empire in India.

Section B contains thematic essay questions examining how successful Harold Wilson was as leader of the Labour Party between 1964 and 1976, and whether Thatcher’s policies towards the miners caused more unrest than any of her other policies. Students are required to evaluate historical interpretations, analyse causation and significance, and construct balanced historical arguments supported by detailed historical evidence.

This official June 2025 paper includes source-based analysis tasks and thematic essay questions requiring historical reasoning, chronological understanding, interpretation skills, and sustained judgement under timed examination conditions. Topics explored include Churchill and India, Baldwin, the Conservative Party, Wilson’s Labour leadership, Thatcherism, industrial unrest, and British politics between 1930 and 1997. Pair it with the matching Y113/01 mark scheme on markscheme.net for complete examiner-style revision and worked-answer support. Updated for the 2025/2026 academic year, optimised for mobile and desktop, and instantly downloadable from markscheme.net — your fastest route to top-grade OCR A-Level History revision.

This document is designed for A-Level students studying OCR History A Britain 1930–1997, including Year 13 students preparing for the 2026 examination series, retake students targeting A/A* grades, independent learners, and home-schooled students revising modern British political and social history.

It is also highly useful for teachers, private tutors, revision-course providers, and parents supporting OCR History revision at home. Use this official OCR question paper for timed mock examinations, source-evaluation exercises, essay-planning practice, historiography workshops, and examiner-standard preparation using authentic OCR assessment materials.