History: What happened when Henry VIII went on tour?

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 History.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Anthony Musson, Head of Research at Historic Royal Palaces, UK, and Dr John Cooper, at the University of York, UK. They are historians, investigating the hidden details of Henry VIII’s royal progresses to discover what happened when Henry went on tour.

• This resource also contains an interview with Anthony and John. If your students have questions for Anthony and John, they can send them to them online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Anthony and John will reply!

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Anthony and John’s research and challenges them to prepare for Henry VIII’s arrival! Students can research a Tudor house that Henry visited during a royal progress, then write a giest to the nobles and servants who lived there, instructing them how to prepare for the royal visit.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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