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Kenilworth Castle: Historic environment for AQA GCSE (9–1) History (2021 exams)

This course is run by Hodder Eduction. For more information and to book, please see their website.

Deliver lessons on the 2021 historic environment site Kenilworth Castle with complete confidence by joining our virtual tour and exam preparation session.

After the sell-out success of her Spanish Armada webinars, Elizabethan England expert Carmel Bones is back to guide you through the next specified site.

  • Discover effective techniques for teaching students about Kenilworth Castle’s features, historical context and associated events and developments

  • Explore second order concepts and exam question approaches that will give pupils the best chance of success

  • Take a 360° virtual tour of Kenilworth Castle and Garden – which you can access for 6 months after the webinar and replay to students as many times as you like – helping you bring the historic environment to life in your classroom

Key areas

  • Getting to grips with the details: chronology, design, originator and occupants

  • Queen Elizabeth and Robert Dudley at Kenilworth, royal progresses and the ‘princely pleasures’

  • Links to second order concepts and question approaches

  • How the design reflects the culture, values and fashions of the people at the time

  • Suggested strategies to deepen understanding

  • 360° virtual visit to Kenilworth Castle and Elizabethan Garden