EARLY MODERN HISTORY AT BISHOP WORDSWORTH SCHOOL Early Modern History is taught at BWS to students f

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EARLY MODERN HISTORY AT BISHOP WORDSWORTH
SCHOOLEarly Modern History is taught at BWS to
students from both South Wilts and Bishop
Wordsworths schools
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Most A level History teaching is in No 11 The
Close, originally built in the 1650s
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EARLY MODERN HISTORY AS CourseBritain
Tudor History 1509- 1558 Henry VIII, Edward VI
and MaryEurope Luther and the German
Reformation
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EARLY MODERN HISTORY A2 CourseBritain
Tudor RebellionsEurope Philip II the Golden
Age of Spain
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EARLY MODERN HISTORY

• The Early Modern History course allows us lots of
  opportunities to get out of the classroom.
  Visiting historic buildings and sites, and seeing
  manuscripts, paintings and drama from the periods
  we are studying enriches students understanding
  of the people and changes they are learning about.

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We are lucky to have one of the great buildings
of Tudor England on our doorstep
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SALISBURY CATHEDRAL

• In September 2008 we visited Salisbury Cathedral
  to learn about religion and culture before the
  Protestant Reformation.
• As well as a tour of the cathedral and study at
  the 750th anniversary exhibition, we also had a
  unique opportunity to visit the Cathedral Library
  the first school group to be invited to do so.

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The Library is hidden away above the East
Cloisters, and can only be reached through a
Hogwarts-style secret door and narrow spiral
staircase
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The Cathedral Library is visible between the
South Transept and the Chapter House. We were
the first school group ever to be invited to
visit the Library
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We were able to inspect a range of different
manuscripts and early printed books from the 15th
and 16th centuries, including works by Henry VIII
and Luther. Some of the Catholic texts had later
been defaced during the Reformation This is an
early printed version of the Sarum Rite a very
influential order of service developed at
Salisbury. Many of the rituals described in the
Rite were swept away at the Reformation.
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TIME TEAM

• Time Team visited Salisbury Cathedral in October
  2008 and we were invited to see the dig in
  progress. All the well-known personalities from
  the TV series were in the Cathedral Close to
  investigate its medieval history, and to look for
  the remains of the original Bell Tower and
  chantry chapels.

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Inspecting the dig at the site of the original
Cathedral Bell Tower
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Matt and Rakhsha explained to us how the size and
layout of the Bell Tower can be worked out from
the foundations they had uncovered.
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Mick Aston and Helen Geakle from Time Team
conferring with the Cathedrals archaeologist
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En route to the next set of trenches
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Freya taking care not to fall in a trench
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Local Time Team member Phil Harding explaining
how the East End of the Cathedral was once
flanked by two chantry chapels part of the
pre-Reformation Churchs prayers for the dead
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Phil points out the foundations of the Chantry
Chapel
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This skeleton was at first thought to be the
remains of a 15th century Bishop of Salisbury,
but analysis of the bones suggested that it was
of a younger man
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Tracys trench had been dug to look for evidence
from the time that the Cathedral was built
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She had found evidence for an early wall,
enclosing a smaller original Cathedral Close
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CONFERENCE IN LONDON

• In February 2008 the Early Modern History
  students attended an A level conference in London
  on Henry VIII. Four leading Tudor historians
  spoke on different aspects of Henrys reign. As
  well as giving us the latest research about the
  King, this was also an excellent chance to
  experience university-style lectures as part of
  students thinking about Higher Education
  options.
• The A2 historians also attend a London
  conference, and usually share a revision workshop
  with Dauntseys School.

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Friends House in London is an excellent venue
for A level conferences
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ST THOMAS AND ST EDMUNDS CHURCH

• In March 2008 the AS History group visited St
  Thomas and St Edmunds Church in Salisbury to
  investigate the impact of the mid-16th century
  religious changes on a local community. Using
  the churchwardens accounts from the period, and
  other historical evidence, we discovered how this
  Salisbury church coped with the changing
  religious demands of successive kings and queens.

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The old St Thomas Church in Salisbury still has
surviving Churchwardens records from the 16th
century, allowing us to trace the impact of the
Tudor religious changes on the local community
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Before the Reformation St Thomas had many chapels
and images associated with different local guilds
and saints. Most of the Churchs elaborate
decoration was destroyed under Edward VI,
although Mary tried to restore Catholic worship
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The Doom Painting at St Thomas shows a late 15th
century view of Heaven and Hell, and is a
valuable source for popular religious beliefs
before the Reformation
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Sinners going down to the Devil
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VISIT TO LONDON JULY 2008As an introduction
to the A2 History course we visited the National
Portrait Gallery and the Globe Theatre
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The National Portrait Gallery in London holds
portraits of most of the key figures in Tudor
History
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Henry VIII as a young man
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A miniature portait of Elizabeth I as a young
woman
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Shakespeares Globe Theatre in London is a
reconstruction of the late 16th century original
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We saw Shakespeares comedy, The Merry Wives of
Windsor
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Sir John Falstaff meets his match in the wives of
Windsor
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Past time in good companyThats us, somewhere
in the middle of the groundlings we stood for
the whole performance, which Mr Endersby
explained was more authentic