Tudor
Encyclopedia: A collection of articles on the Tudor period. As
well as 42 biographies there are articles on the Battle of Bosworth,
Act of Union, Agriculture
and Enclosures, Anglicans and Puritans, The Babington Plot, Catholics
and Protestants, Elizabethan Theatre, Elizabeth and Marriage, Henry
VIII and the Pope, Kett Rebellion, Poverty in Tudor England, The Protestant
Reformation, Pilgrimage of Grace, The Ridolfi Plot, The Spanish Armada,
Sports and Pastimes, The Throckmorton Plot, Tobacco in Tudor England,
Tudor Artists, Tudor Heretics, Tudor Monasteries, Tudor Parliaments,
Tudor Wales and the Tyndale Bible.
Spanish
Armada: After the Spanish Armada rounded Scotland it headed south
for home. However, a strong gale drove many of the ships onto the
Irish rocks. Thousands of Spaniards drowned and even those who reached
land were often killed by English soldiers and settlers. Of the 25,000
men that had set out in the Armada, less than 10,000 arrived home
safely. This website provides an insight into how this military disaster
is taught in Spanish schools. It also includes a series of classroom
activities that raises issues about how nationalism influences the
writing of school textbooks.
Elizabeth
I and Tudor Religion: Making
innovative use of Flash technology, this online lesson from School
History offers a visual presentation of a Tudor Religious Roller coaster
followed by a multiple choice assessment quiz. After this, pupils
are then able to assess the fairness of the Elizabethan Religious
settlement with an interactive drag and drop exercise. The lesson
ends with an essay frame within a word document. The author, Andrew
Field, would very much welcome feedback and comments to help improve
this resource further (mrfield@btinternet.com).
Virtual
Chat with King Henry VIII: A new and innovative project in which
students type questions into the interface, and King Henry answers
them! A worksheet is provided which allows students to "interview"
the King about his wives, his policies, his hobbies and his whatever
else takes their fancy. Any questions which Henry does not understand
can be submitted to the webmaster, who can update Henry's "brain"
as appropriate. He is getting more clever by the day - give it a go!
Kings
and Queens: Explore the kings and queens of England and later
the United Kingdom through time, illustrated with contemporary portraits
and key events from each period. Then see if you can remember who
reigned when in the game. There are four periods to explore in this
BBC website. The Plantagenets and the Houses of Lancaster and York
are featured in the first period, the Tudors and Stuarts in the second
and the House of Hanover in the third. The timeline concludes with
the Windsors.
The
Ambassadors – Online Analysis: Using the awe-inspiring work
of Hans Holbein, court painter to Henry VIII, students are encouraged
to analyze the political, social and religious meanings of an incredible
painting and thereby reach a deeper understanding of the period. An
excellent, original way of approaching picture sources and the Tudor
period in general, produced by Russel Tarr of ActiveHistory.
At
the Court of King Edward VI: An Internet Adventure! Can you survive
in the cut-throat court of Mid-Tudor England? In this new interactive
devision-making game from Russel Tarr at Active History. You will
learn a great deal about the personalities and politics of Edwardian
England and maybe even get to keep your head! Choose your course wisely,
as your performance is given a score (from 'Jeremy Genius' all the
way down to 'Dumb Duffer'!)
The
Tudors: A wide range of resources, pictures and student friendly
narratives can be found in the Tudors Section of Schools History.
Dan Moorhouse has produced a selection of biographies and descriptions
ideally suited to the needs of students in Key Stage 3. This extremely
popular and critically acclaimed unit is further supported by a range
of teachers resources and quizzes.
Tudor
History: Lara E. Eakins established her detailed website on Tudor
History in 1995. Sections include Who's Who in Tudor History, Life
in Tudor Times, Tudor Architecture, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Six Wives
of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Jane Grey, Mary I, Elizabeth I, Genealogical
Trees, Topics in Tudor History, Chronologies, Tudor Humour and Tudor
Movies.
Tudor
England 1485 to 1603: A comprehensive website on Tudor England
that includes sections on Tudor Monarchs, Tudor Relatives, Tudor Citizens,
Six Wives of Henry VIII, Portraits of the Tudors, Life in Tudor England,
Tudor Genealogy, Facts & Figures, Primary Sources, Tudor Quizzes,
Tudor Bibliography and Tudor Links.
Tudor
Houses: Selly Manor and Minworth Graves are two of Birmingham's
oldest buildings. These two beautiful timber-framed manor houses were
actually moved and rebuilt in the village of Bournville by the Cadbury
family. The Bournville Village Trust has recently created a website
where you can take a virtual tour of these two houses. There is also
a useful section on everyday life in Tudor Times (Houses & Furniture,
Work & School, Food & Cooking, Clothing & Health, Games
& Entertainment, Crime & Punishment).
Elizabeth,
Portrait of a Queen: This one hour lesson from History on the
Net, focuses on the portraits Elizabeth commissioned of herself. After
a brief explanation and quiz about Elizabeth's early life students
are told why portraits were painted, shown some of the portraits and
invited to guess when they were painted, informed about the propaganda
benefits of releasing 'nice' portraits and invited to answer questions
about the Armada portrait.
Tudors
and Stuarts: History on the Net, produced by Heather Wheeler,
offers comprehensive coverage of the main events, features and personalities
of the Tudor and Stuart eras. Illustrations and maps are widely used
to enhance understanding.
Spanish
Armada: In 1588 King Philip II of Spain sent a fleet of ships
to collect his army from the Netherlands where they were fighting
and take them to invade England. This was done in the name of religion
because England had become Protestant and no longer accepted the Pope
as the Head of the Church; Spain was Catholic and the Pope had encouraged
Philip to try to make England become Catholic again. He also had a
political reason to go to war with England because Spain ruled the
Netherlands but the people there were rebelling against Spanish control
and England had been helping them. The English were worried about
the threat of invasion and they attacked the Spanish ships as they
sailed along the Channel but the Armada was so strong that most of
the ships reached Calais safely. While the Armada tried to get in
touch with the Spanish army, the English ships attacked fiercely.
However, an important reason why the English were able to defeat the
Armada was that the wind blew the Spanish ships northwards. To many
English people this proved that God wanted them to win and there were
pictures and medals made to celebrate this fact. This Public Record
Office website uses primary sources to answer the question: "Did
God really help the English defeat the Spanish Armada?"
Virtual
Tour of the Mary Rose: This BBC website enables you to explore
the Tudor flagship, the Mary Rose, which was the flagship of Henry
VIII until it sank in 1545. The Mary Rose was built between 1509-11
and named after the King's favourite sister, Mary Tudor. The Mary
Rose was raised in 1982 and is now undergoing restoration in Portsmouth.
You'll need a free VRML plug-in such as Cortona to view this website.
Life
in Elizabethan England: An illustrated guide to Elizabethan England.
Includes sections on Games, Money, Religion, Language, Weddings &
Betrothals, Marriage & Family, Catholics, Church of England, Masters
& Servants, Patronage, Domestic Details, Food, Ranks & Files,
Senior Peers of England, Noble Style, City of London, Puritans, Household
Management, Science & Health, Ireland, Scotland, Mary Queen of
Scots, Shopping in London, Heirs & Inheritance, Staffing a Great
Household, Proverbs & Wise Sayings, Letter Writing, Wedding Customs
and Keeping Christmas.
Mary,
Queen of Scots: On the night of February 9th 1567, a trail of
gunpowder was lit in the cellar of a house in the backstreets of Edinburgh.
The explosion reduced the house to rubble and Lord Darnley, the husband
of Mary, Queen of Scots, was murdered. Ever since, historians have
debated whether Mary was involved and only recently has incriminating
new evidence come to light. At the heart of the mystery lies treacherous
politics of the Scottish Court and love letters written by Mary to
her secret paramour, James Hepburn, the Earl of Bothwell. This website
by Dr. Saul David explores the relationship between Mary, Queen of
Scots and the Earl of Bothwell.
Marie
Stuart Society: Formed in 1992 to mark the 450th anniversary of
the birth of Mary, the Queen of Scots, the main objective of the Marie
Stuart Society is to promote the further study of her life and times.
A journal is produced three times a year and is circulated to all
members. It contains interesting and sometimes little-known information
about Mary, her courtiers, her people and her times. The website includes
a great deal of information on Mary organised under headings such
as Timeline, Family Trees, the Parents, the Husbands, Childhood &
France, Captivity & Plots, Mary & Elizabeth, Mary's Letters
and Places to Visit.
Tower
of London: This website has been created
in association with the Yeoman Warders of the Tower. The producers
of this website have attempted to capture some of the magic and excitement
that you get when visiting the Tower in person. They have also tried
to bring you as much information as possible about the tower and show
you some of the areas that are not accessible when you visit in person.
Encylopedia
of the English Civil War: A
comprehensive encyclopedia of the conflict between the monarchy and
parliament. Most
entries contain a narrative, illustrations and
primary sources. The text within each entry is hypertexted to other
relevant pages in the encyclopedia. In this way it is possible to
research individual people and events in great detail. The sources
are also hypertexted so the student is able to find out about the
writer, artist, newspaper, organization, etc., that produced the material.
There
are sections on Military Leaders (36), Political and Religious Figures
(40), Writers and the Civil War (14), Artists and the Civil War (6),
Events, Issues and Organizations (18), Battles (6) and Religious Groups
(10).
English
Civil War: The site includes a collection of timelines: Parliament
and Constitution 1640-60, The First Civil War 1640-46, The Second
Civil War 1647-49, The Third Civil War 1649-51, The Commonwealth 1649-53,
Cromwell's Protectorate 1654-58 and The Restoration 1659-60. There
is also twenty-four biographies of leading figures in the conflict
and descriptions of sixty-two battles and sieges.
English
Civil War Simulation:
The
keyword for site for Russel Tarr's website is "interactivity".
One of the most recent and successful additions to the site is the
English Civil War Simulation, in which students take on the role of
King Charles and have to make a number of key decisions in an attempt
to steer their country away from Civil War. At the end of the game
they are given a score on their performance, and then consolidate
their learning by producing a newsletter (in Microsoft Publisher)
all about their "reign".
British
History: 1600-1750:
As well as 112 biographies there are articles on important events
from this period (The Civil War, Cromwell's Commonwealth, Glorious
Revolution, Great Fire of London, Gunpowder Plot, Jacobite Rebellion,
Pride's Purge, Putney Debates, Restoration, Rye House Plot, Ship Money,
Test Acts); religious and political groups (Anabaptists, Anglicans,
Baptists, Congregationalists, Diggers, Fifth Monarchists, Independents,
Levellers, Presbyterians, Puritans, Quakers, Tories and Whigs); and
military groups and battles (Cavaliers, Culloden, Edgehill, Marston
Moor, Naseby, Newbury, New Model Army, Roundheads, Roundway Down).
Gunpowder
Plot Society: On November 5, 1605, a solitary figure was arrested
in the cellars of Parliament House. Although he first gave his name
as John Johnson, a startling series of events gradually unfolded under
torture. Guy Fawkes, as he was really called, was one of thirteen
who had conspired to blow up the parliament, the King, and his Lords,
thereby throwing the country into turmoil, out of which these traitors
hoped to raise a new monarch, sympathetic to their cause, and return
England to its Catholic past. The circumstances surrounding what drove
these thirteen disaffected Catholics, led by the charismatic Robert
Catesby, to such a desperate act are the focus of the Gunpowder Plot
Society. This website covers everything from the history of the period,
the various facts and theories, profiles on the conspirators and other
key characters, comprehensive genealogical database, sites of historical
importance, and an extensive downloadable archive of source material,
manuscript and document translations, correspondence, and legal transcriptions
(including confessions).
The
Gunpowder Plot: An attractive website produced by the Centre
for Fawkesian Pursuits. The story of the plot is told in six
parts. Each section is accompanied by music of the period. The main
strength of this site is the way it provides
background information on a whole range of topics linked to the central
topic. This includes food, clothes, music, culture and language. The
website also explores relevant concepts such as political violence
and includes a section on Terrorism in History'.
Gunpowder
Plot: Guy Fawkes, born in 1570, died 1606, was caught red-handed
in the Palace of Westminster itself on 4th November 1605. Everyone
knows who Guy Fawkes was and what he tried to do. But why did Guy
Fawkes and his fellow conspirators feel driven to do such a thing?
This website created by Jeremy Boot provides a detailed account of
the Gunpowder Plot. It includes substantial background information
on the reasons why Guy Fawkes and his collaborators attempted to destroy
the Palace of Westminster.
The
Reformation: Are you a Protestant or a Catholic? In this interactive
decision making game by RJ Tarr, players are presented with a number
of tricky questions about their spiritual beliefs and the computer
then gives them an overall profile. This is an excellent way of teaching
students about a very tricky topic, complete with lesson notes and
a worksheet.
Oliver
Cromwell: This comprehensive site has been produced by the Cromwell
Association and the Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon. The material has
been organized under the following headings: Calendar of Key Events,
Oliver Cromwell's Antecedents, Oliver Cromwell as Politician, Oliver
Cromwell's Military Career, Oliver Cromwell's Views on Religion, Words
Said About Oliver Cromwell, Words Said By Oliver Cromwell, English
Civil Wars and Cromwell: A Select Bibliography of Books and Articles.
Gerrard
Winstanley: In January, 1649, Gerrard
Winstanley published
the The New Law of Righteousness. In the pamphlet he wrote: "In
the beginning of time God made the earth. Not one word was spoken
at the beginning that one branch of mankind should rule over another,
but selfish imaginations did set up one man to teach and rule over
another." Two months later Winstanley
and about thirty followers took over some common land on St George's
Hill in Surrey. Digger groups also took over land in Kent (Cox Hill),
Surrey (Cobham), Buckinghamshire (Iver) and Northamptonshire (Wellingborough).
Local landowners were very disturbed by these developments. Instructions
were given for the Diggers to be beaten up and for their houses, crops
and tools to be destroyed. These tactics were successful and within
a year all the Digger communities in England had been wiped out. This
website provides a good overview of the political and religious ideas
of Gerrard Winstanley.
The
Levellers: During the Civil War some radicals such as John Lilburne
began writing and distributing pamphlets on soldiers' rights. He pointed
out that even though soldiers were fighting for Parliament, very few
of them were allowed to vote for it. Lilburne argued that all adult
males should have the vote and that these elections should take place
every year. Lilburne was imprisoned for publishing his pamphlets but
soon after he was released he joined with John Wildman, Richard Overton
and William Walwyn, to form a new political party called the Levellers.
Their political programme included: voting rights for all adult males,
annual elections, complete religious freedom, an end to the censorship
of books and newspapers, the abolition of the monarchy and the House
of Lords, trial by jury, an end to taxation of people earning less
than £30 a year and a maximum interest rate of 6%. This website
provides an overview of the subject and extracts from the pamphlets
published by the Levellers.
Regicides:
In August 1660, following
the Restoration of King Charles II, the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion
was passed as a gesture of reconciliation to reunite the kingdom.
A free pardon was granted to everyone who had supported the Commonwealth
and Protectorate, except for those who had directly participated in
the trial and execution of King Charles I eleven years previously.
A special court was appointed in October 1660 and the surviving Regicides
were brought to trial. Ten were condemned to death and publicly hung,
drawn and quartered at Charing Cross or Tyburn, London, in October
1660: Thomas Harrison, John Jones, Adrian Scroope, John Carew, Thomas
Scot, and Gregory Clement, who had signed the King's death warrant;
the preacher Hugh Peters; Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtel, who commanded
the guards at the King's trial and execution; and John Cook, the solicitor
who directed the prosecution.
Diary
of Samuel Pepys: This website, produced by Phil Gyford, is a presentation
of the diaries of Samuel Pepys, the renowned 17th century diarist
who lived in London. A new entry written by Pepys will be published
each day, with the first appearing on 1st January 2003. For those
involved in historical research there is a useful list of people and
places mentioned in the text.
Glorious
Revolution: The term Glorious Revolution refers to the bloodless
English revolution that took place between the removal of James II
and his replacement by William and Mary. In this unit of work pupils
learn about the causes of the Glorious Revolution and the diverse
reactions to it from within Ireland and Scotland. Pupils have the
opportunity to assess the impact of the Act of Union 1707 in Scotland
and to examine the reasons for the final defeat of the House of Stuart
in 1745.
Tudor
Hackney: This website enables you to explore the world of 1601
through a virtual reality reconstruction of the Rectory House, which
once stood on the west side of Hackney's Mare Street. Much of the
information on the Rectory comes from an inventory of the house taken
when the owners, John and Jane Daniell, fell foul of the law, and
their house and goods were seized by the Crown. Their story is told
here in the form of a video drama. Other parts of the site will tell
you what Hackney was like in this period, when it comprised three
parishes - Hackney itself, Stoke Newington and Shoreditch, on the
edge of the City of London, home to two theatres and an up and coming
playwright, William Shakespeare.
Jousting
developed to allow knights to practice fighting with lances and shields.
Knights used their heraldry to identify them in jousts and a system
of rules and regulations was developed under officers called the marshal
and constable. Jousts were carefully organised events overseen by
heralds. Teams of challengers and defenders dressed in spectacular
armour and fought agreed numbers of courses on horseback with lances
and sometimes swords or axes. The object was to break the lance of
the opposing knight rather than deliberately injuring him, and points
were scored for this display of skill and grace. In this simulation
students get the chance to take part in a joust.
Tudor
Biographies: A large collection of Tudor biographies including
Kate Ashley, Thomas Audley, Anthony Babington, Anthony Bacon, Francis
Bacon, Charles Blount, George Boleyn, Mary Boleyn, Thomas Boleyn,
Eleanor Brandon, Frances Brandon, Arthur Brooke, Anthony Browne, Thomas
Butler, Edmund Campion, George Carew, Robert Carey, Adriano Castelli,
Robert Catesby, Robert Cecil, William Cecil, Anne Clifford, Henry
Compton, Thomas Cranmer, Thomas Cromwell, Robert Devereux, Everard
Digby, Francis Drake, John Dudley, Robert Dudley, William Fiennes,
John Gerard, Hugh O´Neill, Mathew Parker, Thomas Sackville,
Edward Seymour and Mary Sidney.
Oliver
Cromwell Online Exhibition: Oliver Cromwell died at Whitehall
on 3rd September 1658. He was 59 years old. As the head of state,
Cromwell was honoured with an elaborate and regal funeral. However,
he was not left to rest in peace. The desecration of Cromwell's corpse
three years later, and the separation of the head from the body, has
led to its curious history. Nearly 350 years after his death Cromwell
and his remains continue to fascinate - this exhibition aims to explain
what did happen to Cromwell's head.
Gunpowder
Plot Game: Guy Fawkes was among a gang of Roman Catholic conspirators
who wanted to blow up the House of Lords and assassinate King James
VI of Scotland and I of England. As part of their plan, they stored
gunpowder kegs in the cellars of the House of Lords. These were going
to be ignited when the King and the rest of the political elite were
assembled in the chamber above them. In this attractive looking game
pupils have to answer a series of questions on the plot before the
gunpowder explodes.
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