Edexcel GCSE History · 1HI0
Paper 3
An offence involving an attempt to overthrow or betray the state.
Revise: Munich Putsch and ReorganisationIn April, he was convicted of high treason and received a five-year sentence in Landsberg Prison.
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GCSE History · key term
An offence against the monarch or state, such as plotting to kill or overthrow the monarch.
Used by Edexcel and OCR
Paper 3
An offence involving an attempt to overthrow or betray the state.
Revise: Munich Putsch and ReorganisationIn April, he was convicted of high treason and received a five-year sentence in Landsberg Prison.
Paper 1
A serious offence against the monarch or the monarch’s authority, punishable by death in Elizabethan England.
Revise: Religious settlementThe law also made conversion to Catholicism high treason. This shows how closely religious conformity and political loyalty had become linked: changing religion could now be treated as an offence against the Queen’s authority, carrying the death penalty.
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