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Tudor table manners

About this learning resource

Format: PDF

Excerpt from 'De Civitate' 1534, a primary source for use in teaching.

This resource complements the Tudor kitchens revealed key stage 3 school session at Hampton Court Palace.

National Curriculum links

• The development of Church, state and society in Britain 1509-1745.
• Society, economy and culture across the period: for example, work and leisure in town and country.

Learning objectives

• Students will understand the role of the kitchens to feed the Tudor Court.
• Students will analyse the relationship between exotic foods, wealth and social status.

Resource Information

Key Stage

  • KS3 (age 11-14)
  • KS4 (age 15-16)

Subjects

  • History

Topic

  • Tudors

Type

  • For the classroom

Palace

  • Hampton Court Palace
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Key Stage

  • KS1 (age 5-7)
  • KS2 (age 7-11)
  • KS3 (age 11-14)
  • KS4 (age 15-16)
  • KS5 (age 16+)
  • Home Educators
  • SEND

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Tudors
  • Elizabethans
  • Stuarts
  • Georgians
  • Victorians
  • 20th and 21st Century

Key dates relating to the Tudor and later kitchens at Hampton Court Palace from 1526 to 1979.

Key Stage

  • KS2 (age 7-11)
  • KS3 (age 11-14)
  • KS4 (age 15-16)

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Tudors

A learning resource that explains who's who at Hampton Court Palace.

Key Stage

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

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Tudors
  • Elizabethans
  • Stuarts
  • Georgians
  • Castles