A Level History

Year 12

Click here for research materials for independent research - there is a folder for each monarch.   

Click on your teacher for the NEA lessons:  HAM's Lessons

The Possible Questions:  use these to guide your research.

1. To what extent was religion the most serious threat to the security of the Tudor State in the period 1521  – 1603?    

(Henry VIII is made defender of the Faith and Publishes his Defence of the Seven Sacraments to Elizabeth’s death to the succession of a Protestant Stuart)

2. To what extent was factionalism the most serious threat to the security of the Tudor State in the period 1501 – 1601?      (White Rose Rebellion to the Essex Rebellion)

3. To what extent was succession the most serious threat to the security of the Tudor State in the period 1502 – 1603?  (Death of Arthur to the  Death of Elizabeth)

4. To what extent were foreign powers the most serious threat to the security of the Tudor state in the period 1513 – 1597?   (Battle of Flodden to theThird Spanish Armada)

5.  To what extent was the Reformation in England a threat to the Tudor state in the period 1521-1603?

      (Henry VIII is made defender of the Faith and Publishes his Defence of the Seven Sacraments to Elizabeth’s death  to the    succession of a Protestant Stuart)

Podcasts: To develop your knowledge of key topics

• Dissolution of the Monasteries

• Tudor State

• Book of Common Prayer

• Death of Elizabeth I

• Foxe's book of Martyrs  - History of Protestant martyrs and their persecution (fled England in Mary I's reign)

• Mary Queen of Scots