Tower of London

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Tower of London

• Medieval Display

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• In 1078 William the Conqueror ordered the White
  Tower to be built, as much to protect the Normans
  from the people of the City of London as to
  protect London from anyone else.
• It was King Richard the Lionheart who had the
  moat dug around the surrounding wall and filled
  with water from the Thames River.
• It was drained in 1830, and human bones were in
  the refuse found at its bottom.

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• The Tower of London has served as fortress,
  armoury, treasury, mint, palace, place of
  execution, public records office, observatory,
  refuge, and prison, particularly for upper class
  prisoners.

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Tower of London
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The Moat- 12 century Richard I
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Beefeater at Middle Tower
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Byward Tower- Main Entrance
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Wakefield Tower
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Inside the Castle
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Ancient Legend- Ravens
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Guards
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Inhabitants Toilet
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Torture and Death

• Lower-class criminals were usually executed by
  hanging at one of the public execution sites
  outside the Tower.
• St. Thomas Moore was beheaded because he did not
  want to go with King Henry VIIIs orders to be in
  charge of the church.
• He was publicly executed on Tower Hill.
• Nobles (especially ladies) were sometimes
  beheaded privately on Tower Green.

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Torture Devices- Why?
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Places you dont want to be
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Chopping Block
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Tower Bridge
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Traitors Gate
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To the Thames River
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Armor- Henry VIII
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Earl of Worcester
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Weapons
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Weapons
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Crown Jewels
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The Plague
No less than 16 outbreaks of the plague between
1348 and the Great Plague of 1665.
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Science of the Plague
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The Black Plague
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How did it spread?