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AQA A-LEVEL HISTORY Component 2S The Making of Modern Britain, 1951–2007
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A-level AQA A-LEVEL HISTORY Component 2S The Making of Modern Britain, 1951–2007HISTORY
Component 2S The Making of Modern Britain, 1951–2007
Friday 9 June 2023 Afternoon Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
• an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
A • Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7042/2S.
• Answer three questions.
In Section A answer Question 01.
In Section B answer two questions.
Information
• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• The maximum mark for this paper is 80.
• You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
• You are advised to spend about:
– 1 hour on Question 01 from Section A
– 45 minutes on each of the two questions answered from Section B.
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IB/M/Jun23/E5 7042/2S
Section A
Answer Question 01.
Source A
From a speech in the House of Commons during a debate on the Wootton Report, by
Conservative MP Patrick McNair-Wilson, 27 January 1969. This report recommended
the legalisation of cannabis.
I have listened to the arguments of those experts outside this House who have tried to
persuade me and others that the smoking of cannabis is no more than a social pastime.
But I think that we are accepting too many kinds of social changes, not so much because
we want them but merely because we believe that they are inevitable. I do not subscribe
to the inevitability of what must happen to our social order in this country. For the report 5
to suggest that the use of cannabis amounts to nothing more than youthful
experimentation is the most dangerous premise on which to build any sort of legislation
on drug-taking. We have to keep a firm grip on our society if we do not want it to get out
of control. As a nation we can either just go with the flow or we can draw the line. I want
to draw the line.
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Source B
From comments on the 1960s made in an interview by John Lennon, 1971. These were
published in the influential and widely read music and popular culture magazine, ‘Rolling
Stone’.
The people who were in control and in power and the class system and the whole
bourgeois scene was exactly the same except that there were a lot of middle-class kids
with long hair walking around London in trendy clothes. But apart from that, nothing
happened except that we all dressed up. The same people were running everything. It
was all hype. We’ve grown up a little, all of us, and there has been a change and we are
a bit freer, but it’s the same game. They’re doing exactly the same things, selling arms to 5
the whites in South Africa and here people are still living in poverty. I woke up to that
reality. Nothing happened except that we grew up. We did our own thing in the Beatles
just like they wanted us to, but now most of the so-called ‘Now Generation’ are getting
regular jobs and all of that. I don’t believe in the sixties’ dream any more. It was all a
myth. 10
IB/M/Jun23/7042/2S
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