For the less academic pupil, this series provides a resource for the delivery of the curriculum in a colourful way, enticing children to enjoy learning. This book covers Rivalry and Conflict, elements of the English Civil War, for KS3 Level.
High-quality full colour resource organised into topics with key words pinpointed, activities throughout and supported by three accompanying workbooks.
Contents:
1 The Reformation
2 England and Spain 400 years ago
3 Elizabeth and Philip ― rivals
4 Facts about Elizabeth and Philip
5 Conflict over new lands
6 Catholic and Protestant countries in Europe
7 Europe 400 years ago: true or false?
8 Mary Queen of Scots
9 Two cousins ― Elizabeth and Mary
10 Mary in England
11 Mary is executed
12 Studying what really happened in the past
13 The Spanish Armada 1588
14 Timeline ― 1588
15 The Armada sets sail from Spain
16 The English and Spanish ships
17 The Great Armada is defeated
18 What is a colony?
19 Fact or Fantasy?
20 The first colonists in America
21 An English colony in America
22 Ireland 400 years ago
23 The Plantation of Ireland
24 The Planters come to Ireland
25 The Flight of the Earls, 1607
26 The Ulster Plantation
27 A Plantation Bawn
28 The Plantation in Co Londonderry
29 Life as a Planter in Ireland
30 Life as a native Irish person
31 James I becomes King 1603–1625
32 King and Parliament
33 Charles I, King of England 1625–1649
34 Kings and Parliament in the 17th century
35 Charles I and the Puritans
36 The English Civil War begins in 1642
37 Two important battles
38 Defeat and execution for Charles I, 1649
39 Parliament rules England, 1649–1660
40 The Puritans
41 The Puritan family
42 The 1641 Rebellion
43 The 1641 Rebellion in Co Armagh
44 The story of Jane Armstrong
45 War in Ireland, 1641–1650
46 “To Hell or Connaught”
47 Oliver Cromwell ― Lord Protector
48 England gets a king again
49 James II becomes King of England, 1685
50 The Glorious Revolution 1688
51 Rulers during the war in Ireland 1689–1692 page
52 The main battles in Ireland
53 The Siege of Derry, 1689
54 The Battle of the Boyne, July, 1690
55 The Battle of Aughrim, July 1691
56 The Siege of Limerick, August–September 1691
57 The Treaty of Limerick, 1692
58 The Wild Geese
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Kathleen Gormley has a Masters degree in modern history and teaches history and politics at St Cecilia's College in Derry. For two years she was seconded to the Western Education and Library Board as a History advisor. She is author of several local history publications and textbooks, including co-authorship of the other two books in this series. Dr Austin Logan, until his untimely death in 1995, was an Advisor on Environment and Society with the Western Education and Library Board. He was the prime mover behind this series of books.
