This is one of my students’ favourite sources #earlytudors #historyteacher 

Anyone who thought that Mary would just meekly step aside for Jane was living in cloud cuckoo land. #historyteacher #EarlyTudors I’m glad Northumberland did nothing to secure Mary - he got exactly what he deserved.

That source goes in the revision session - one thing I like about the thematic bit of the Early Tudors is that the same names keep popping up and they’re all invariably doing something terrible or stupid. It makes the stories easier to remember. #historyteacher #EarlyTudors #ALevel

#historyteacher #EarlyTudors #ALevel How nerdy do we want to get? ‘Very’ is the correct answer.

This book is really good on how Somerset became Lord Protector (and how Paget was the power behind the power behind the throne) #historyteacher Today we did the ‘I told you so’ letter, which means next week is 🐶🔫 #EarlyTudors

OCR people, you have to sign up for these talks - it’s the whole section of the specification (the bit the exam board is afraid of) Henry 1529-47. #historyteacher #EarlyTudors They’re so great for revision - they’re an overview using the sources as support. @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

Finding it oddly reassuring (because Y13 are making me wonder if I actually taught them at all last year) that everything it talks about is what I teach, almost to the letter (the talk is currently on Leviticus vs Deuteronomy) #historyteacher #ALevel #EarlyTudors

Woman's Hour - Leeds maternity review, Women vets, The term 'rough wooing' - BBC Sounds Donna Ockenden will lead a review into maternity services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.

11 March episode of Women’s Hour argues that the term ‘rough wooing’ should be changed due to its historical connotation of sexual assault. It’s also anachronistic - the term wasn’t used in the 16th century. It’s the last 10 mins. #historyteacher #EarlyTudors www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Edinburgh 1544 - Map Old and New Edinburgh the way it was in 1544 - Virtual Time Binoculars Virtual Reality Mobile Applications

Latest side quest to avoid marking and to make Tudor foreign policy more interesting: what was Edinburgh like before Henry VIII’s troops went scorched earth in 1544? sh.smartheritage.net/Edinburgh154... #historyteacher #EarlyTudors (and then we’ll look at effect on civilians as well as on FP)

Not Just the Tudors - Henry VIII at War - BBC Sounds Why has history forgotten Henry VIII's legacy as a conqueror?

#EarlyTudors #historyteacher: listen to this episode. It has totally changed my perception of H8 in France. The way they talk about it is really interesting and brings it to life much better than ‘learn these treaties’ as on the specification @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Here he is! #historyteacher #EarlyTudors

an elderly woman with the words it 's been 84 years written on her face ALT: an elderly woman with the words it 's been 84 years written on her face

My copy of Penguin Monarchs: Henry VII arrived today! #historyteacher #EarlyTudors

Tomorrow Y12 learn about court factionalism in the 1540s through the eyes of Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk, using @nikkiclark86.bsky.social’s book ‘The Waiting Game.’ Thank goodness Catherine Parr surrounded herself with clever, brave, opinionated women. #historyteacher #EarlyTudors

Year 12 opinion of Henry VIII:
What a melt
Just some stinky old egomaniac
Mr Fragile Masculinity
Paper thin skin

(We did about Anne of Cleves meeting Henry for the first time when he was in disguise) #EarlyTudors #historyteacher

Book recommendation: Young, Damned and Fair by Gareth Russell. It has a really good overview of the political impact of the Henrician Reformation in the 1530s and 1540s in chapter 1. If you’re teaching factionalism to your Y12s at the moment, it’s worth a read #historyteacher #EarlyTudors

My Year 13s don’t know the difference between Thomas Seymour (admiral, dog assassin, sex pest) and Edward Seymour (ambitious proclamation fan, king kidnapper, rebellion-ignorer)

This annoys me. It 👏🏼 says 👏🏼 his 👏🏼 name 👏🏼 on 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 source👏🏼

#historyteacher #earlytudors

And then we looked the erasure of the cult of Thomas Becket, why Henry did that (and why an injunction was needed) using the British Museum’s exhibition on Becket. Then backed it up with extracts from Ives’ Reformation Experience and Marshall’s Heretics and Believers #historyteacher #EarlyTudors

I had a lovely lesson with Year 12 today. We compared the Great Bible (normal print run) to the Great Bible (Henry VIII’s hand-coloured personal copy) and the 1537 Matthew Bible, and discussed what the decision to publish can tell us about evangelism in the late 1530s… #historyteacher #EarlyTudors

Next lesson with Y12, Cromwell invests in the English Bible and as a reward, photoshops himself onto the title page. Y12 get to play spot the difference, and I get to natter on about a really important book. Lovely. Religious change is my favourite bit of the course #historyteacher #EarlyTudors

Anne Boleyn portrait design work revealed by infrared scans Hever Castle says Boleyn's hands are included to rebut

OK. This is exciting. #historyteacher www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #EarlyTudors

This was such a great talk (and this is one of my all time favourites) #historyteacher It has changed the way I teach A Level. #EarlyTudors

I’m on to the dissolution of the monasteries with Year 12 tomorrow - I don’t quite know how I managed to get this far. I feel like I’ve missed something out. #ALevel #HistoryTeacher #EarlyTudors

Henry VIII At War Podcast Episode · Not Just the Tudors · 08/12/2025 · 59m

#EarlyTudors teachers, last week’s Not Just the Tudors is a really interesting discussion of Henry VIII’s conquest of Boulogne in 1544. It will make you rethink the one or two lessons you have time for on 1540s foreign policy. #historyteacher podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Secrets of The National Archives: The Act of Supremacy, 1534 Discover King Henry VIII’s groundbreaking act and its far-reaching consequences.

#EarlyTudors and #ReformationInEngland teachers, the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy are running some online workshops about key documents, including the Act of Supremacy, The King’s Book, and Henry VIII’s will. All in March 2026, all Fridays at 2pm. Sign up! #historyteacher

This one is excellent on women at the Field of Cloth of Gold (aka, Thursday’s lesson) and combined with the article I have about English women being so pissed that they horrified the stuck-up French courtiers, I think we’re going to have a fun lesson. #historyteacher #EarlyTudors

My Year 12s have done a great job on their Henry VII foreign policy essays. You know what this means: just as I have finally mastered teaching it after 7 years, it will never appear on an exam again*. #EarlyTudors #ALevel #historyteacher

*if only - the exam board are obsessed with it.

Continuing the ‘women leading Tudor foreign policy’ policy #historyteacher #EarlyTudors

Let us celebrate by planning a two hour lesson about Henry VII and the Breton crisis 🎉🥳🙌🏻👏🏼🎊🍾 #historyteacher #EarlyTudors

King Charles and Pope Leo to pray together in historic first The King will become the first British monarch to pray in a church service with a pope since the Reformation.

As a Reformation nerd, this pleases me enormously. #historyteacher #EarlyTudors King to be first British monarch to pray with Pope in at least 500 years www.bbc.com/news/article...

Henry VII financial monopoly-ish tomorrow. I really hope it works (and if it doesn’t I’m going to bribe the kids with chocolate money - it’s what Henry would want) #historyteacher #EarlyTudors