Author Archives: Mr Kydd

Enrichment – something to read. Elizabeth’s spy network

All, Below, please find a couple of articles exploring the Elizabeth’s spy network. It is a fascinating topic, and particularly timely for the Lower Sixth, as we are currently exploring the Catholic threat to Elizabethan religion. If you click here … Continue reading

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Elizabethan parliaments revision session – Podcast / notes / model answer / PowerPoint (with jpegs)

If you click here you will get to the PowerPoint used in today’s session. This has the jpegs of our boardwork. If you click here you will get to my notes, including the examiner report (and others) that I discuss … Continue reading

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Skills revision session – Later Tudors (Y107)

If you click here you will get to my pre-mock revision PowerPoint on the skills required for the Y107 paper. Below is the audio to go with this (many thanks Luke). Mr Kydd.

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OCR example of an effective provenance conclusion to a sources paper.

Why is this the way to do it?

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Enrichment – A something to read – A rivalry in letters

If you follow the hyperlinks (part one and part two) you will get to an excellent article from Ryan Hunter exploring what we can learn about the two queens, and their attitudes from their correspondence. As he suggests, “Mary, Queen of Scots … Continue reading

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Enrichment – something to read.

If you click here you can read a review of “Rival Queens” by Professor Williams in The Herald. The book suggests “that story needs re-tuning”, and would be excellent summer reading for Year Twelve historians. “Mary crossed the Solway Firth to England in the hope her cousin … Continue reading

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From yesterday’s revision session

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Enrichment – Something to listen to. In Our Time – William Cecil

All, Something rather special for you today. If you click here you will get to last night’s In Our Time on Radio 4. In it, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact on the British Isles of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the most … Continue reading

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1559 essay plans

From today’s lesson.

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Revision – types of parliament essay

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