Battlefield Britain - Supporting Worksheets: The Battle of Hastings The Spanish Armada The Battle of Britain The Battle of Naseby

Worksheets to support the Documentary series: Programme 1 ‘Feud Glorious Feud’ - takes a journey back to the Dark Ages, before laws were written down and trials involved harsh physical ordeals with boiling water and red hot pokers. But by the end of this period, the Saxons had created the very first sophisticated legal systems of courts and juries some 200 years before they were formally introduced. Programme 2 ‘Guilty as Charred’ - studies the period up to and after the Norman invasion was perhaps the most turbulent in the history of law. But in the 150 years from 1066, the legal system was transformed. This period saw the signing of Magna Carta and the establishment of the three major planks of a modern legal system: independent judges, trial by jury, and English common law. Programme 3 ‘New King on the Block’ - looks at he battle over freedom of speech and how the monarch finally lost its power, and its head. As crucial as Magna Carta, the introduction of the Bill of Rights in 1688 saw Parliament and politicians now assume complete domination over the monarchy for good. Programme 4 ‘Have I got Noose for You’ - examines the huge escalation in the amount of law-making with the rise of industrialised society in the eighteenth century. And with thinkers such as Voltaire, Locke and especially Jeremy Bentham, the modern ideas of prison, reform and rehabilitation for offenders begin to emerge. All worksheets are written in Publisher and formatted to A3. The resources can be saved as PDF files for A4 printing

BBC - Twentieth Century Battlefields - Peter and Dan Snow Historian Peter Snow tells the story of the most important battles of the 20th Century. Armed with his mapcase which presents digital illustrations of his presentations, Snow tells the big picture of these clashes and their impact. Meanwhile, his son, Dan, goes into the field to explore the details of these battles and the part they played in the grand context of history