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BBC

Bbc Scotland: Mary Queen of Scots

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore key events from the life of Mary Queen of Scots. There are many easy to use interactive exercises to help test your knowledge of the information you have just read. Great biographical overview, a timeline, and links to...
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Other

Kings and Queens of England

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete list of every King and Queen in English history from Egbert to Queen Elizabeth II.
eBook
Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens

For Students 9th - 10th
A Child's History Of England by Charles Dickens offers the opportunity to learn the history of England as told by one of the finest storytellers of English literature. The book begins with Roman Britannia and proceeds chronologically to...
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Other

Englishhistory.net: Mary, Queen of Scots

For Students 9th - 10th
Mary, Queen of Scots is profiled, who was beheaded by order of Queen Elizabeth I in 1587. Content includes a biography, chronology, numerous images, quizzes of Tudor England, and more.
Website
Project Britain

Timeline of the Kings and Queens of England

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource provides information and a timeline about the British Monarchs.
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: The Queen's Own: Stamps That Changed the World

For Students 9th - 10th
A selection of extraordinary materials from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's personal philatelic holdings.
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Other

Royal Collection Trust: Photographs to Celebrate 80th Birthday of Hm the Queen

For Students 9th - 10th
A vast collection of photographs that highlight the life of Queen Elizabeth II in celebration of her eightieth birthday. Click on 'Contents' then 'The exhibition' to access the photographs by decade.
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Robin Chew

Lucidcafe: Elizabeth I, Queen of England

For Students 9th - 10th
This biographical resource for Queen Elizabeth I can help students collecting background information or for use in classroom discussion and assignments.
Handout
BBC

Bbc: Mary, Queen of Scots

For Students 3rd - 8th
Poor Mary, Queen of Scots. Read about her life as Queen of a religiously divided country and find out how that affected her reign and death. Archived.
Lesson Plan
Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Queen Elizabeth I: Elizabeth Tudor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Biographical information about Queen Elizabeth I of England is shared on this reference. Additional information is presented about her connection to Willaim Shakespeare's plays.
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Other

Tudor History: Mary I

For Students 9th - 10th
Tudor History offers a brief biography of Mary I, the first child of Henry VIII, who reigned as Queen of England from 1553-1558.
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BBC

Bbc History: British History: Tudors: Mary, Queen of Scots, and Bothwell

For Students 9th - 10th
An article that tells of new historical evidence of Mary's plotting with her lover James Hepburn, the Earl of Bothwell. Archived.
Handout
Other

Genuki: Rulers of England and Great Britain

For Students 9th - 10th
Chronology of British rulers arranged by family and year, spanning from Egbert in 829 to Elizabeth II in 1952.
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Danuta Bois

Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Elizabeth Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
A short article on Elizabeth II, who became Queen of England after her father, King George VI, died in 1947.
Handout
Other

English History: Katharine of Aragon

For Students 9th - 10th
Two brief accounts of the life of Katharine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife from English History. Site also includes letters written by Katharine.
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Other

Queen Elizabeth I: Semper Eadem Always the Same

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Queen Elizabeth I's (1533-1603) tumultuous life, examine portraits of the time period and read primary source documents.
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Woodlands Junior School

Project Britain: The British Queen: Queen Elizabeth Ii

For Students 3rd - 8th
Biographical facts on Queen Elizabeth II in an easy to read question/answer format. Helpful for doing a research paper and includes links on the left with much additional information on the Royal Family.
Handout
Other

English history.net: Anne of Cleves

For Students 9th - 10th
Two accounts of the life of Anne of Cleves from EnglishHistory.net, portraits of her, and primary witness accounts of portions of her life.
Website
Royal Collection Trust (UK)

The Royal Collection: A Royal Wedding

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibition that celebrates the Diamond Wedding Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Includes photos from their early lives, wedding, honeymoon, and gifts received.
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The Newberry Library

Newberry Library: Marriage and Family in Shakespeare's England

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning modules explores the concepts of marriage and family in Shakespeare's England, 16th-18th Centuries. Students examine Shakespeare's work and the work of others and gain a sense of familial roles, obligations and how family was...
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Other

Elizabethi.org: Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth I

For Students 9th - 10th
This Queen Elizabeth I of England site features many resources, both text and illustrations, about the life and times of the Tudor monarch who lived from 1533-1603.
Website
BBC

Bbc History: British History: Tudors: Anne Boleyn and the Downfall of Her Family

For Students 9th - 10th
This six-part article describes the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, the first English queen to be publicly executed by her husband, Henry VIII. Five hundred years after her death, her tragic tale is still the subject of historians and the...
Interactive
BBC

Bbc: History: Women's Rights in Victorian England

For Students 9th - 10th
Play this game to learn about women's cultural status in Victorian England, and learn about the progress of women's rights during the time of Queen Victoria's reign. Archived.
Primary
Yale University

The Avalon Project: Charles Ii's Grant of New England to the Duke of York

For Students 9th - 10th
Yale University's Avalon Project provides a transcription of Charles II's Grant of New England to the Duke of York, 1676.

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