Theme: Religion and internal politics
1. Did England become Protestant in the sixteenth century?
2. Why were Mary I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots such controversial figures in Tudor England?
3. Why were English people fighting each other in the seventeenth century?
4. How far did the Puritans change life in England in the late 1640s and early 1650s?
5. What different problems did James I and James II face in the seventeenth century?

Theme: Social life
6. How did people live in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
7. Did Elizabeth I effectively tackle the problems of begging?
8. Did crime pay in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
9. Why was there a witch-craze in the seventeenth century?

Theme: External relations
10. Why did England have enemies abroad in the sixteenth century?
11. The Celtic fringe: why were the Scots and Irish discontented in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
12. Why did British people explore and settle in different countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?