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Tower of London

Artefacts

About this learning resource

Format: PDF

Photographs with descriptions which enable students to understand and use primary sources in their history lessons and homework. These artefacts relate to key events in the history of the Tower of London from AD50 to 1952.

National Curriculum links

• Supports students to identify significant events, make connections, draw contrasts and analyse trends within periods and over long arcs of time.

Learning objectives

• Students will understand that evidence is used to interpret history.
• Students will apply primary evidence to question Tower history.
• Students will create their own hypotheses about the Tower's history using primary evidence.

Resource Information

Key Stage

  • KS3 (age 11-14)
  • KS4 (age 15-16)
  • KS5 (age 16+)
  • Home Educators

Subjects

  • Archaeology
  • History

Topic

  • Historic Environment

Type

  • Historic sources

Palace

  • Tower of London
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Self-guided historical enquiry designed to support GCSE students studying the Normans, in particular the AQA historic environment of Norman England.

Key Stage

  • KS4 (age 15-16)
  • KS5 (age 16+)

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Normans

A selection of primary and secondary image and written sources

Key Stage

  • KS4 (age 15-16)

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Historic Environment

Download short editable biographies of Richard III and the Two Princes Significant People for Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5. Use key facts, activities and historic sources to explore the people caught up in the disappearance of the Two Princes. 

Key Stage

  • KS2 (age 7-11)
  • KS3 (age 11-14)
  • KS4 (age 15-16)
  • KS5 (age 16+)
  • Home Educators

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Medieval
  • Crime & Punishment
  • Wars of the Roses