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Year 8: Tudors; French Revolution; Empire & Slavery
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A-level: Time Traveller on the rich, including the gentry.
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Time Traveller on the rich, including the gentry.
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A-level: Time Traveller on the rural poor in Elizabethan England.
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Time Traveller on the rural poor in Elizabethan England.
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'Hundreds of years before the invention of radio or television, how did the Tudors occupy themselves of an evening, or during long, winter nights? Melita Thomas, the editor of Tudor Times, investigates …'
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'When queen of France Marie Antoinette was indicted in August 1793, months after the execution of her husband Louis XVI during the French Revolution, she asked that she would not “suffer long”. However, she went on to spend two and a half months living in squalor before her trial and eventual execution for treason. Here, Will Bashor shares the final events of Marie Antoinette's life, including an escape attempt which would become known as the Carnation Affair …'
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'Mary I was known posthumously as ‘Bloody Mary’ for her persecution of Protestants. We bring you eight facts about the Tudor monarch …'
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'It is an era popularised by Guy Fawkes, the plague and the Great Fire of London. But, as author Matt Brown explains, much of what we think we know about the 17th century is incorrect. Here, writing for History Extra, he picks apart some of the myths and misconceptions about the period …'
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'They immediately succeeded the Tudors, and reigned over some of the most monumentally changeable times in British history – civil war, rebellion, the beheading of a king, plague outbreaks, a disastrous fire and a successful foreign invasion. Yet the Stuarts remain a largely overlooked dynasty ...'
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'Britain was engulfed by war in the mid-17th century. Here, three leading historians of the conflict – Micheál Ó Siochrú, John Adamson and Blair Worden – consider the pivotal points. The story begins with Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, coming under pressure for his authoritarian rule and his religious policies …'
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'One of the most famous disasters in London’s history, the Great Fire of 1666 devastated the heart of England’s capital, destroying more than 13,000 houses and badly damaging landmarks including St Paul’s Cathedral and the Royal Exchange. But how much do you really know about the blaze? Rebecca Rideal, author of 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire, shares 10 lesser-known facts …'
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It was an accidental war. It was fought by gentlemen. Cromwell was the key to victory… Our experts explore 10 myths of the seismic 17th-century conflict.
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'It was an accidental war. It was fought by gentlemen. Cromwell was the key to victory… Our experts explore 10 myths of the seismic 17th-century conflict.'
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Cromwell is furious with all this popish nonsense!
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On 10 Thermidor, Year II in the new revolutionary calendar – 28 July 1794 to us today – Maximilien Robespierre climbed the steps to the guillotine stationed in Paris’s Place de la Révolution.
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'Robespierre is often cast as one of the bloodiest figures of the French Revolution. But has he been made a scapegoat for the sins of equally guilty men? Marisa Linton, who has a new book out on the revolution, investigates...'
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A-level: Time Traveller on Elizabethan Court
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A-level: Time Traveller on Elizabethan towns.
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Tudor buildings
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A-level: Janina Ramirez on Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
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'It was one of the most transformative periods in English history, but which dates in the Tudor calendar had the greatest impact? Historian Lauren Mackay maps out the top 10 …'
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'What was life like for a 17th-century Londoner? Nick Rennison investigates …'
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'Dr John Cooper, a specialist in early modern history at the University of York and historical advisor to the BBC series Gunpowder, speculates about what would have happened if Guy Fawkes had succeeded in blowing up parliament in 1605 …'
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Tracey Sowerby (Keble College, Oxford) on Tudor government, factions etc.
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'Bloody Mary’ Tudor was long branded a religious bigot and a military failure. Yet as Anna Whitelock explains, the first woman to wear the crown of England was a political pioneer who redefined the monarchy.
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''Bloody Mary’ Tudor was long branded a religious bigot and a military failure. Yet as Anna Whitelock explains, the first woman to wear the crown of England was a political pioneer who redefined the monarchy.'
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'For all Charles I's undoubted flaws, we should recognise that the much-maligned monarch was handicapped by his father’s failings and chronic bad luck, says Tim Harris.'
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'John Aubrey chronicled one of the most turbulent periods in English history. Ruth Scurr reveals what his writings tell us about episodes such as the Civil War, Great Plague and Restoration, and the remarkable characters that shaped them ...'
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'The French Revolution of 1789 ushered in over half a century of civil insurrection in Europe and around the world, culminating in a second great year of revolutions in 1848. David Andress and Mike Rapport, who have written books on these respective years, chart the course of the uprisings and explain what the fight was for.'
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Changes in Elizabethan society.