Autumn term
The Tudors
• Who was Martin Luther?
• What was the Reformation?
• Why did Henry VIII break from Rome?
• Was Mary Tudor ‘Bloody Mary’?
• Why did Elizabeth defeat the Spanish Armada?
• Lives of Black Tudors including John Blanke, Mary Fillis and Diego
The Stuarts
• Was the Gunpowder Plot a conspiracy?
• Why was there a civil war?
• Why was Charles I executed?
• How was England governed without a monarch?
• Why were so many people accused of witch craft?
• Why did so many people die of plague?
Spring term
Empire
• European exploration of the New World
• What was the British Empire?
• How should the British Empire be remembered?
• British rule in America
• The impact of the empire on India
• The scramble for Africa
• The legacy of the British Empire
Slavery
• The transatlantic slave trade
• Life on the Middle Passage
• Life on the plantations
• Slave resistance
• Who benefitted from slavery?
• Nottinghamshire and slavery
• The abolition of slavery
• Modern slavery
• Modern racial attitudes
Summer term
Industrial Revolution
- Industrial towns and cities
- Inventions
- Transport
- Working in the factories
- Public health
- Popular protest
- Women in the Industrial Revolution
Democracy and society
- Edwardian Britain
- Liberal reforms
- What can the Titanic tell us about attitudes in society?
- Suffragettes fight for the vote- tactics used, outrage at Kew, Emily Davison
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