Life in Tudor Times is one of the topics in the new Cambridge Primary History course, which has been specially written for the post-Dearing History curriculum at key stage 2. Each topic in the series covers the content of one Study Unit and provides enjoyable activities suitable for children of a wide range of abilities. The pupils' book for Life in Tudor Times will give pupils a clear insight into the lives of people during this period at different levels of society. It will enable pupils to learn about the main events and personalities while investigating the nature of Tudor society, the causes and consequences of events and their impact on people's lives. A wide range of accessible historical sources introduce children to enquiry and interpretation skills and enable them to make comparisons within the Tudor period and to conditions in other eras.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cambridge Primary History .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 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.

There are 49 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Cambridge University Press .

Kate Thompson lives in Ireland where she has worked a smallholding for ten years. She has two daughters. She is a fanatical player of the fiddle and an obsessive gardener.

This book has the following chapters: Introduction: The Tudor world; 1. A Tudor city; 2. Life in the countryside; 3. Poverty and crime; 4. Tudor rulers; 5. Two Tudor kings 6. Rebellion; 7. The progresses of Elizabeth I; 8. Elizabeth I and the Spanish Armada; 9. Exploration; 10. Tudor schooldays; Conclusion: What was important to Tudor people?