Tudors

Last month I posted about the intriguing and rather forgotten incident of the so-called Ralph Wilford Rebellion (my actual post title being: Who the Heck was Ralph Wilford?). Wilford was one in a long line of pretenders to the English throne during the Tudor period, impersonating the Earl of Warwick in order to provide himself […]

With the ending of many classes I have taken advantage of engaging in deeper research of various questions that have appeared over the past year. One of these was the incident of Ralph Wilford, a pretender to the English throne who raised his head in 1499 during the reign of Henry VII. Such is the […]

Today the first-year A-level class concluded the reign of Henry VII in the AQA The Tudors module. Moving on to a new reign and monarch is in many ways a positive thing: new content and new debates to engage in. However, in other ways we say farewell to someone who has become an old friend. […]

A few months ago I posted a short play that I had written half-in-jest for a History class (The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln). It is a past-time that I seem to have been more and more engaged with over the past three or so years, and the origins of this stretch back to my first […]

I’ve recently been focussing on finishing the first year scheme of work for the AQA module on The Tudors. Year one is spent focussing on the first two generations of the Tudors – Grandpappa Tudor (Henry VII) and Daddy Tudor (Henry VIII) – before pausing in the summer to begin coursework. The second year will […]

The Tudor period has always been a fruitful one for studying and reading. It is filled with everything the history enthusiast could ever need: plots and rebellions, tyrants and schemers, along with a whole host of era-defining events. One of the most fascinating factors is that of political intrigue: of the various rises in factions […]

This week I’ve been covering the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Here we have a woman in a man’s world attempting to outwit those around her: the religious extremists, the nobles in the country, and the foreign monarchs who wish to see her head on a platter (yes, Philip II, I’m looking at you!). It’s […]