This is an exciting Key Stage 3 resource for teaching lower attainers about the issues and events that characterise medieval Britain. It never lets go of the period's story, providing opportunities to examine the big picture and investigate particular topics. For instance, did you know who made sword belts out of the skin of an English treasurer, that anyone who could read Psalm 51 at the time was likely to avoid the hangman's noose, or why a 14th-century Londoner ended up drowning in his own cess pit?

 

This book is part of a book series called Hodder History .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 72 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Hodder Education .

John D Clare is Deputy Headteacher at Greenfields Comprehensive School, Newton Aycliffe and a well-known author of educational textbooks.

This book has the following chapters: The Norman Conquest; keeping control; the changing power of the king; the impact of Christianity; living in the country; living in the towns/towns in the Middle Ages; health and medicine in the Middle Ages; medieval realms; war and society; where have we been? Where do we go from here?