A Year 8 course tracing how political power changed hands in Britain across nearly a thousand years, from the Norman Conquest and Magna Carta through Henry VIII, the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution to the great reform struggles of the nineteenth century: Peterloo, the 1832 Reform Act and Chartism. Built for KS3 students who are starting to think historically about cause, change and power.
Each topic tells the story first, then asks you to think with it. Where the evidence is thin or historians disagree, the course says so, and invites you to make up your own mind and explain why.
A question you will meetWas Henry VIII a tyrant, or a king doing what kings did?
Start learning ->Who really held power when even a king could be forced to obey the law?
What happens when a king and his people cannot agree on who rules?
How did ordinary people win a voice in how Britain was run?