History,
one step at a time.

Ordeal depended on clergy blessing the procedure and interpreting the result as divine judgement. Once the Church stopped participating, English courts moved towards jury-based procedures.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of Thematic: Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000-present. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

Industrial weapons created severe wounds and infection risks. Medical staff adapted organisation and treatment under pressure, though developments built on pre-war knowledge as well.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of Thematic: Medicine in Britain, c1250-present. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

Standard organisation, training and leadership improved Parliament's military effectiveness. Its political and religious character also made it influential beyond the battlefield.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of Thematic: Warfare and British society, c1250-present. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

Caribbean people had lived in Britain for centuries and served during the war, but the ship's arrival became shorthand for a larger post-war generation recruited into work and public services.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of Thematic: Migrants in Britain, c800-present. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

The Reds controlled Moscow, Petrograd, industry and central communications. White armies were geographically separated, politically divided and associated with foreign intervention and possible land restoration.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of Modern depth: Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-41. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

Military defeat, constitutional weaknesses and economic crisis reduced trust in a democracy created under severe pressure. The detail in the extract supports this impression through its emphasis on the development's cause, consequence or significance.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of Modern depth: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

Weather contributed in places, but policy and distorted information were central. Officials feared reporting failure, so procurement continued while people starved.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of Modern depth: Mao's China, 1945-76. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

Court decisions required enforcement and organised protest to challenge entrenched state laws, violence and resistance. The detail in the extract supports this impression through its emphasis on the development's cause, consequence or significance.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of Modern depth: The USA, 1954-75: conflict at home and abroad. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

After rebellion and Danish intervention, Norman forces destroyed crops, livestock and settlements. Famine and depopulation followed, though the scale varies by place and evidence.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of British depth: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060-88. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

Richard retained effective administrative systems and raised large revenues from England. Absence did not mean no government, but it increased dependence on trusted deputies.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of British depth: The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189-1216. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

Cromwell turned a dynastic problem into constitutional and religious legislation. Parliamentary statutes enabled an English judgement and made the break enforceable across the realm.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of British depth: Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509-40. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

Anne Boleyn's fall made Elizabeth legally illegitimate, while involvement in suspected plots under Mary I brought interrogation and confinement. Survival encouraged controlled speech and delayed decisions.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of British depth: Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

Conquest was followed by colonial administration and exploitation. Encomiendas gave colonists claims to Indigenous labour and tribute under supposed obligations of protection and conversion.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of Period: Spain and the New World, c1490-c1555. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

The Act affected printed materials broadly and raised a constitutional issue over Parliament's authority. Repeal showed pressure could work but did not settle sovereignty.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of Period: British America, 1713-83: empire and revolution. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

The killing at Wounded Knee followed fear of the Ghost Dance and symbolised the destructive outcome of conquest, reservation confinement and assimilation policy as the frontier was declared closed.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of Period: The American West, c1835-c1895. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

The hotline, Test Ban Treaty, Non-Proliferation Treaty and SALT I created limited rules for managing superpower competition. Strategic parity, cost and fear of nuclear escalation encouraged détente without ending ideological rivalry or the arms race.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of Period: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.

Military preparation, intelligence and air superiority were decisive. The territorial gains created new occupation and security disputes rather than a lasting settlement.

Watch for: Do not narrate the story of Period: Conflict in the Middle East, 1945-95. Select evidence that answers the precise period, factor, source or interpretation in the question.