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GCSE History · key term
Training in which a young person learns a trade by working with an experienced craftsperson.
Used by Edexcel and OCR
Paper 2
Revise: Education and LeisureAn apprenticeship taught a young person a craft through work with an experienced adult. A son learning in his father's workshop might therefore gain useful training without a long academic education.
Paper 1
A period in which a young person works under a master to learn a trade, often living in the master's household.
Use precise supporting details, such as schooling for wealthy boys from about seven and leaving home for service or apprenticeship from about twelve.
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Among the middling sort, service or an apprenticeship often came first: this gave young people time to gain experience and the resources needed to establish a household.