Format of study day
Duration 10.30 - 15.45
- 10.30 – 12.30 (National Archives)
- 13.45 - 15.45 (Hampton Court Palace)
(Parking is available at both sites.)
Each day will work towards developing students’ historical skills as needed for source investigation and document study papers.
The study days will consist of interactive workshops investigating documents at the National Archives, relevant areas of Hampton Court Palace and use costumed interpretation to allow students to interview key witnesses to the events.
Following each costumed interpretation session, time will be allowed to question the interpreter and for students to gain a further insight into the periods studied.
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Topics available
Suffragettes
The history of the suffragette and Suffragist Movement is bound up with the residents of the grace-and-favour apartments at Hampton Court Palace in the 19th century.
Students will spend the morning at the National Archives gaining access to some of the most important original documents kept on the subject. Students will also have the opportunity to research using Home Office and Metropolitan Police files. These detail militant suffragette activities and include the police file on Emily Davison’s protest at the Derby.
In the afternoon, students travel to Hampton Court to visit the Suffragettes Soldiers and Servants exhibition and grace-and-favour apartments to interview a costumed interpreter playing the role of a political activist of an earlier age!
Civil War
In 1647 at the height of the English Civil War, Charles I is imprisoned at Hampton Court by Oliver Cromwell's army. His escape three months later looked to be a turning point in the fortunes of the Cavaliers.
The morning’s session at the National Archives gives students the opportunity to study the original Stuart documents and Civil War propaganda posters. Based on their research they will conduct their own investigation into the causes and effects of the Civil War, before gaining access to the original Great Seals of Charles I and the Commonwealth, as well as the prejudicial trial notes which led to the execution of Charles I!
On arriving at Hampton Court Palace in the afternoon, students will meet a costumed interpreter acting as Cromwell and will be able to question his motives as protector and politician.
Mid-Tudor Crisis
Crisis or continuity? Look at the evidence that has been used to support both sides of the argument to adjudge the success or imminent failure of government during the reigns of Henry VIII’s first two children.
Using surviving contemporary documents from the national Archives, students will be given the opportunity to research the reign of Mary I using the Calendars of State papers, to investigate whether or not Mary’s reign can be seen as years of crises or achievements.
Amongst the documents shown to students is Princess Elizabeth’s letter to her sister Mary I, written on 16 March 1554 during her imprisonment in the Tower of London. At Hampton Court, students will have the opportunity call a witness from history to piece together their thoughts and test their theories.
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Available dates
- 8, 22 February 2008
- 9, 16 May 2008
- 6, 13, 20 June 2008
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Prices
£10 per pupil (£180 minimum charge)
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