Pupil outcome: I can understand ways to approach the 16-mark historic environment question. Key learning points: - The question will ask about either change, continuity, cause or consequence. - Arguments about change, continuity, cause...

Pupil outcome: I can understand ways to approach the 16-mark historic environment question. Key learning points: - The question will ask about either change, continuity, cause or consequence. - Arguments about change, continuity, cause...

This video provides a detailed account of the events leading up to and during the Battle of Hastings in 1066, where the invading Norman forces led by Duke William of Normandy defeated the Anglo-Saxon army under King Harold Godwinson....

This video delves into the historical conflict between Pope Leo the 9th and the Normans in southern Italy in the early 11th century. It highlights the rise of the Normans as mercenaries, their expansion into southern Italy, and the...

Discover how the Normans settled the land by building churches and monasteries and explains how the locals paid rent to the church which in turn paid taxes to the king.

This video covers the cause of the Norman invasion in 1066.  Despite King Edward making, William Duke of Normandy heir to the English throne, Harold Godwinson stole the crown.

Part two describes how, during the battle, William Duke of Normandy had fallen and the effect it had on morale.

This video covers the early Norman castles, how the motte and bailey was constructed and mentions some of the first stone castles like Chepstow and Pevensey.

A Norman sailor describes the lead up to the invasion from the Norman perspective; the ships, the supplies and the crossing to England

A Saxon warrior describes what he saw at the battle of Stamford Bridge, and how it began with a conversation between Harold Godwinson and his brother Tostig who had sided with the Viking King Harald Hardrada

In part one, a Norman soldier describes the start of the battle of Hastings including a description of Taillefer, the juggler who entertained the Normans before the battle started

Part three describes the final part of the Battle of Hastings including the arrow storm that rained down on the Saxons and the fall of King Harold

This video provides a tour of Skipton Castle, the best-preserved medieval castle in England and once the home of Lady Anne Clifford. The tour includes the names each room and how workers and residents would have used them. This is the...

A Viking warrior describes his experience of the battle of Stamford Bridge; the fierce battle and fighting retreat they had to make when the Saxons overcame them

A Norman soldier describes the Bayeux Tapestry; nearly 70 metres long and having been made in England it depicts the events that led up to the Norman conquest aswell as Battle of Hastings

This video explains the origins of the Normans and explains their ancestry and how they came to settle in Normandy, i.e. from Norsemen or Vikings