History at Emrys
Adran Hanes
Key Stage 3 Curriculum
Year 7
How did the coming of the Normans affect England and Wales between 1000 and 1100?
How much did the lives of ordinary people change during the medieval period?
What impact did Christian beliefs have on people’s lives?
Who had the real power in the country: King, Church or Barons?
Was England the neighbourhood ‘bully’?
What challenges did people face in the 14th century?
Do Owain Glyndwr and Henry Tudor deserve to be remembered as ‘heroes’
Year 8
Why was there so much religious conflict in the Sixteenth Century?
The Elizabethan Golden Age: Image or Reality?
The Gunpowder Plot: Catholic Conspiracy or Cecil Set Up?
Was Wales and England turned upside down during the Seventeenth Century?
Why did the Civil War break out in 1642?
How did the Civil War affect ordinary people?
Why was the King executed?Cromwell: Protector or Traitor?
Was the Seventeenth Century an age of science or superstition?
How important a role did Britain play in the emergence of the slave trade?
2010 - present
2010 - present
Year 9
Why did Britain become the first industrialised nation in the world?
How ‘bad’ were living and working conditions in the industrial age?
Why did twentieth century conflicts affect so many people?
What was the impact of the First World War?
Why did another war break out in 1939?
What was it like to live through the Second World War?
How and why did the Holocaust happen?
Which individual shaped the 20th century the most?