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History // Medieval Times
Medieval Food & FeastsWhat people ate in medieval times: bread and pottage for ordinary people, grand feasts for the rich; no forks, eating with hands; the great hall as the centre…
Ages 5 to 7ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Battle of Hastings and 1066The events of 1066: the death of Edward the Confessor, three claimants to the throne, the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror, and the Bayeux Tapestry as…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Medieval Pyramid of PowerHow medieval society was organised: king at the top, then lords, then knights, then peasants/serfs; who owed what to whom; the pyramid of power and mutual…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
The Medieval ChurchThe enormous power of the medieval Church: monasteries and the daily life of monks and nuns; building great cathedrals; pilgrimage as a religious journey; the…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
The CrusadesA simplified account of the Crusades: why Europeans travelled to the Holy Land, what they found there, the cultural exchange between Christian Europe and the…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Castle Design Through the AgesHow castles were built and evolved: from wooden motte-and-bailey to stone keeps to concentric castles; rooms and their uses; how castle design responded to new…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Anglo-Saxon BritainWho the Anglo-Saxons were: Germanic peoples who settled in Britain after the Romans left; their kingdoms, villages, place names, art, and eventual conversion to…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Siege WarfareHow castles were attacked and defended: siege weapons (trebuchets, battering rams, siege towers), boiling liquids, arrow slits, murder holes; the drama of a…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
The Black DeathThe Black Death of 1348-49: what the plague was, how it spread, its devastating death toll; how it changed society by giving surviving workers more power and…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Vikings vs Anglo-SaxonsThe conflict between Vikings and Anglo-Saxons for control of England: Viking raids, Alfred the Great's resistance, the Danelaw, Athelstan as first king of all…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Medieval Legacy in Modern LifeWhat the Middle Ages gave us: Parliament, universities, common law, Gothic architecture, the English language (Anglo-Saxon + Norman French), place names…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Medieval Worlds Beyond EuropeThe medieval world beyond Europe: the Islamic Golden Age (maths, medicine, architecture), the Mali Empire and Mansa Musa, Song Dynasty China; how the medieval…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Printing Press & RenaissanceThe invention of the printing press by Gutenberg and its arrival in England with William Caxton; how printed books changed everything; the transition from the…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Art & ArchitectureMedieval cultural achievements: illuminated manuscripts, Gothic cathedrals (flying buttresses, stained glass), Gregorian chant, the Bayeux Tapestry; art and…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Magna Carta and Limiting Royal PowerKing John, the barons' revolt, and the sealing of the Magna Carta in 1215; what the Magna Carta said about limiting the king's power; its lasting importance for…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Towns & TradeThe growth of medieval towns: markets, guilds, the merchant class; how towns won charters of self-governance; the shift from purely rural to partly urban life
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Crime & PunishmentHow justice worked in medieval times: trial by ordeal, trial by combat, the role of the sheriff; punishments including stocks, pillory, and dungeons; how…
Ages 9 to 11ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Women in the Middle AgesThe lives of medieval women: noblewomen managing estates, peasant women's hard daily work, nuns and abbesses, notable figures like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Joan…
Ages 9 to 11Concept