1. The Elizabethans

2. Background-The King’s Great Matter
Desire for divorce from Katherine
Diplomatic repercussions Spain and Vatican
Desire for Anne Boleyn ( Norfolk faction)the mother of Elizabeth
Fall of Wolsey- scapegoat unpopular with nobles
1533 Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury
Secures divorce
Henry excommunicated by pope
Pupils have to think of two sides of an argument.  Should Henry divorce Catherine of Aragon?  

3. Religion- tensions of the Reformation
A protestant enthusiast
Cranmer’s BCP
1531 Henry recognised as supreme head of church in England- exploits anti papal feeling
1534 Act of Supremacy – Henry head of church in England – split for authority of Catholic Church of Rome
Dissolution of the Monasteries
Land and property goes to crown
Emergence of protestant ideas – not official

4. The Nine Day’s Queen Lady Jane Grey niece of Edward
Somerset pro protestant faction
Mary has popular support for claim to throne
Elizabeth in Tower

5. Philip II of Spain and Mary Tudor Catholic Counter Reformation 1553-58
Mary reinstates Catholic observance
Personally devout treatment of mother)
Marries Philip II of Spain in Winchester Cathedral
No heir
Heretics persecuted Bloody Mary
Latimer and Ridley
Fall and execution of Cranmer
European tensions

6. Elizabeth I 1559-63 key themes
Religious tension counter reformation
Foreign affairs diplomacy Netherlands France Spain Ireland
William and Robert Cecil –statesman
spy master Francis Walsingham
The Virgin Queen personality power politics- Suitors and Succession
Rich and poor 1597 New Poor Law
Arts literature music Learning
Exploration – empire
Ireland

7. Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots claim to throne via Margaret Tudor sister of Henry VII m Francis I then Lord Darnley then Bothwell
Flees Scotland ( Protestant)
Comes to England house arrest
Focus of Babington plot 1586
Executed 1587
Her son James VI becomes James I in 1603

8. Elizabeth and Essex- Power of the portrait
Activity Elizabeth timeline
Assessment
Tudor Portrait pack

9. Rich and Poor- Hampshire Pack
Unemployment of ex soldiers post Wars of Roses - No private armies
Dissolution of monasteries- infrastructure
Enclosures of land
Rise in population
Spanish silver
Legislation – parish based revenues
The New Poor Law 1563, 1572
Impotent Poor, Able Bodied Poor
Punitive attitudes
Houses of the very poor
A Tudor yeoman’s house inside and out
Tudor palaces
Food
Feast for a Queen
The court of Elizabeth was peripatetic. This could be a head ache for her subjects…
role play activity- lesson plans

10. Drama and Poetry Shakespeare, Ben Johnson –Volpone Christopher Marlowe - Dr Faustus Philip Sydney- Arcadia, Edmund Spencer-The Faerie Queene
When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee,—and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings

11. Exploration- The Ambassadors www.nationalgallery.org.uk
International competition Spain Portugal S. America
Spice silk gold silver
Columbus 1492 – The Indies
Cabot Nova Scotia
Vasco de Gama 1489 > India
Magellan 1519
Henry VII navy tradition technology
Francis Drake navigator privateer
Walter Raleigh Roanoke Island Virginia
Potatoes tobacco turkeys

12. Francis Drake c.1540 - c.1596 the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.
Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon in around 1540
In 1567, Drake made one of the first English slaving voyages as part of a fleet led by his cousin John Hawkins, bringing African slaves to work in the 'New World'.
All but two ships of the expedition were lost when attacked by a Spanish squadron. The Spanish became a lifelong enemy for Drake and they in turn considered him a pirate. in July 1579, west across the Pacific.
He arrived back in September 1580 with a cargo of spices and Spanish treasure the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.
In 1585, Drake sailed to the West Indies and the coast of Florida where he plundered Spanish cities.
In 1587, war with Spain was imminent and Drake entered the port of Cadiz and destroyed 30 of the ships the Spanish were assembling against the British.
In 1588, he was a vice admiral in the fleet that defeated the Armada.

13. Head to Head – Why did the Armada Fail?
This is a fun activity for groups of 3 to sit opposite the table to another group of three.  Each group represents one side of an argument.  One of the pupils on one side advances an argument which their opposite number has to counter with an idea of their own.  It then passes to the next person in the group who does the same..

14. Walter Raleigh ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke _Colony
On March 25, 1584, Queen Elizabeth I granted Sir Walter Raleigh a charter for the colonization of the area of North America known as Virginia. Raleigh and Elizabeth intended that the venture should provide riches from the New World and a base from which to send privateers on raids against the treasure fleets of Spain.[Raleigh himself never visited North America, although he led expeditions in 1595 and 1617 to South America's Orinoco River basin in search of the legendary golden city of El Dorado

15. Horrible History- life at sea- but not a deterrent! Richard Hakluyt
We all know that pupils love gore, toilets etc., so why not appeal to this interest and ask pupils to record their ideas in the form of a Terry Deary Horrible History.  Clearly you will need to model the genre with them first.,

16. The Armada and its defeat
Response from Philip of Spain to
Religion
English support for Protestants in Netherlands
Excommunication of Elizabeth
Death of Mary Queen of Scots
Philip named her heir
Spain helped Catholic rebels in Ireland
Spain at peace with France
Piratical acts by Drake and others
1588 Armada sails 130 ships to Netherlands plan to pick up troops for invasion ( 60 return to Spain)
Armada attacked near Plymouth
Use of Fireships
Survivors of Spanish armada flee round Scotland, killed in Ireland
English ships smaller
Suspect Spanish Leadership
Activity –sorting the historians

17. Explore… www.npg.org.uk Timeline and Elizabeth I
Holbein and the Ambassadors
Holbein
Hampshire packs