Welcome to the Later Tudors section of Heathen History

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Mr Kydd

These pages are designed to support LVS A Level students studying for their summer examination. Our examination board is OCR H505, and the paper is Y107 – The Later Tudors. Please find the course Personal Learning check list here. You may also like to look at these excellent timelines from the BBC.

 

We envisage that different students will use different parts of the site in different ways. Most students find the assessment sections above as particularly useful for reference. You should however also look at the additional materials section to enrich and extend your studies. As you study the different units you may like to use the appropriate pages. Below this post will be articles of news about Tudor history. Above all however, we want this to be your site. However you use it is fine, but please take ownership of it. Oh you might also like to see this early film footage of the Elizabethan puritans in action…

Please find here the department’s 5Rs document (Research, Reflect, Review, Read around, and Respond to feedback). It sets out what A Levels students should expect form us, and what we expect from you.paywall2

Mr Kydd.

(askydd@yahoo.co.uk)

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For those of you who like your Tudor enrichment a bit steamier

Posted on November 24, 2022 by Mr Kydd
Available on Netflix from the 23rd November
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Enrichment – something to listen to. The significance of Elizabeth’s death in 1603

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will Melvin Bragg’s Radio 4 “In Our Time” programme on the significance of the death of Elizabeth I. It is well worth a listen.

“Melvyn Bragg and guests John Guy, Clare Jackson and Helen Hackett discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I and its immediate impact, as a foreign monarch became King in the face of plots and plague.By the spring of 1603, Elizabeth had been Queen for 44 years, and it was clear that she would leave no heir. Many feared that her death would spark insurrection, led perhaps by Puritans, perhaps by Catholics, possibly with the support of Spain. As it became clear that she was dying, Elizabeth’s chief minister, Sir Robert Cecil, put into action his covert strategy to secure the succession of King James the Sixth of Scotland“.

Keep smiling – it is almost the summer
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History in the News – Hidden inscriptions discovered in Anne Boleyn’s execution prayer books

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to an article in today’s Independent. It explains how secret inscriptions hidden in Anne Boleyn’s prayer book have been discovered by a student. The concealed names, uncovered using ultraviolet light, reveal that the illustrated book was handed down between women loyal to the Queen to preserve her memory.

Have a look for yourself, and see what you think.

Mr Kydd.

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Y13 mock feedback

Posted on September 26, 2020 by Mr Kydd

feedback-logo7All,

You did the 2017 Later Tudors Y107 paper for your mock. OCR were very thorough in this year with their marked examples for the sources and essays. It is really worth studying the attached documents, and comparing them to your effort. I have also included the mark scheme and the question paper if they are helpful.

Mrs Coombes / Mr Kydd

 

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Paragraph work – model example

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Mr Kydd

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Updated Elizabeth notes – Units 1- 3

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Mr Kydd

ANimatronic ElizabethAll,

Apologies for the animatronic Elizabeth above. It is the work of Mat Collishaw at the Royal Museums Greenwich – it sits opposite to the “Armada Portrait” – in every respect perhaps. It is, of course, as far from the controlled image of the Cult of Gloriana as you can imagine. Click here for the article.

More importantly, I have tidied up my notes on units 1 -3 of the Elizabeth section of later Tudors course (OCR Y107). In particular, I have added more evidence, and a lot of assessment support (eg examiner feedback, marking tasks, etc).  The document size means that I have had to split it into sections and cut the KS3 religion introduction. Note however that you do have these in paper form.

Mr Kydd.

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Materials

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Mr Kydd

maxresdefaultAs promised the materials that I will be using with you between now and the end of the summer term.

 

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Revision – Elizabethan finance, economics and social problems

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Mr Kydd

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Possible question areas – a diagrammatic representation

 

 

This is obviously NOT an exhaustive list. Stradlers (in gold) might encourage a two factor approach (as suggested in the chief examiner's comments)

This is obviously NOT an exhaustive list. Stradlers (in gold) might encourage a two factor approach (as suggested in the chief examiner’s comments)

Useful exam board materials

Below is the chief examiner’s generic comments in 2019 for those students who did well in their Tudor essays.

  • Discussed at least two issues in depth.
  • Gave supporting detail that was both accurate and relevant to the question set, not just the topic.
  • Reached a supported judgement about the issue in the question.
  • Made a series of interim judgements about the issues discussed in relation to the question.
  • If you click here you will get to the 2017 paper. This includes a straight finance question.
  • If you click here you will to the mark scheme for this paper.
  • If you click here you will get to a Board example (9/20 – Lv3 – page 35 onwards).
  • If you click here you will get to a 16/20 – Lv5 answer.

Finance

Old specification questions

January 2010

“Inflation was the most serious financial problem facing Elizabeth I and her government”

How far do you agree ?

January 2011

How successfully did Elizabeth I handle the financial problems she faced?

January 2012

Assess the causes of Elizabeth I’s financial problems

June 2012

How serious were the financial and economic problems during the reign of Elizabeth ?

 

New specification questions

June 2017

“The cost of war was the most serious cause of Elizabeth’s financial problems – discuss”

Notes

Finance notes

Board work

 

 

Seven different ways you might use finance in an essay.

Seven different ways you might use finance in an essay.

Inflation-financial-problems-essay

Economics

Economic and social legislation acts

Enclosure, industry, trade and slavery notes

econ

Social Matters / Poverty

Poverty marking task

 

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Revision – Elizabethan religion – decoding questions and useful exam reports

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Mr Kydd

All,

Following on from today’s session please find the attached materials.

Exam board Scheme of Work

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Two useful board screen shots

rel aimsElizabeth’s religious aims (remember that it is always easier to argue that Elizabeth was, as S.Doran suggested “a committed and conventionally pious protestant” who got the religious settlement that she wanted).

 

rel overviewAn overview of the topic and key issues. Note, the comparison of the Catholic and Puritan threats might look like a too large topic for a 35 minutes exam question. However, have a look at the chief examiner’s comments below. They could be taken as “two issues” in their own right.

 

Useful exam board materials

Below is the chief examiner’s generic comments in 2019 for those students who did well in their Tudor essays.

  • Discussed at least two issues in depth.
  • Gave supporting detail that was both accurate and relevant to the question set, not just the topic.
  • Reached a supported judgement about the issue in the question.
  • Made a series of interim judgements about the issues discussed in relation to the question.

Our comparison of similar questions

(with x2 ten minute podcasts discussing them)

Rel 1

Rel 2

 

Marking tasks and essay plans

(if you want them)

Religious Settlement plan

Mark these two essays – which is better? Why?

Catholicism Essay 1

Catholicism Essay 2

I hope that there is something helpful here.

One final point I forgot in the session. Know your Archbishops of Canterbury. Dickens and Fellows is very helpful here (pages 177 – 179. This is Jasmine’s version of the table on p179. 

Mr Kydd.

 

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Revision – assess the role of Elizabeth’s ministers in the government of England 1558 – 1603

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Mr Kydd

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