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Enrichment – things to watch. Timewatch: The Mary Rose
If you click here you will get to the BBC iplayer and Dan Snow’s Mary Rose Timewatch programme. It is excellent – particularly if you are thinking of archaeology as a degree course. You may also like to click here to visit the BBC’s online … Continue reading
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Half Term Work
All, Over half term you need to do the following. Read and note this excellent web link in detail. Read this for extension. Question 14 – Page 24 (on sugar paper). Make sure that you explain how the bodies link together. Now use … Continue reading
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Enrichment – something to watch. She Wolves – Helen Castor
All, A really excellent start to the course from the super Helen Castor. Enjoy. Mr Kydd.
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Documents from the British Museum
Year Twelve, Click here for some useful Mid Tudor documents from the British library. Note in particular; Edward VI diary entry The 1549 Book of Common Prayer Foxe’s Book of Martyrs The 1588 Speech by Elizabeth I. Mr Kydd.
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History Today -why the Amada failed.
Year Twelve, If the click here you will get to Geoffrey Woodward’s 1988 article considering the reasons why the Armada failed. He concludes “when the responsibility for the failure of the Spanish Armada is apportioned, the lion’s share of the blame should go … Continue reading
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Obituary – John Bossy
Year Twelve, Apologies – this news passed me by at the time. You will come across John Bossy when you write on Elizabethan religion. He was very much an original thinker, and wrote beautifully. He died in December, and Simon … Continue reading
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History enrichment materials
Year Twelve, Well done on finding the site – now bookmark it and this lovely introduction page http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/ztfxtfr If you did not get to history society, you may like to watch the first part for David Starkey excellent series below. … Continue reading
Closing Post
As I am no longer teaching this course I will not be posting on these Tudor pages from now on. I will however leave them open in case they are of use to anyone. Mr Kydd.
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The Tudors as we’ve never seen them before
If you click here you will get to Alastair Smart’s article in the Daily Telegraph review of the National Portrait Gallery’s “Real Tudors: Kings & Queens Rediscovered” exhibition. “The curators are keen to stress how coloured our vision of the Tudor monarchs has … Continue reading
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Quotation Bank
I think that you will all find that you owe Jonah a drink or two. He has kindly agreed to share his quotation bank with you. You can find it here. Mr Kydd.
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