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Hampton Court Palace Significant People

Biographies and Key Facts

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Format: Power Point Presentation

Download short editable biographies of Significant People from Hampton Court Palace for Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5.

Use key facts, activities and historic sources to explore important people linked to Hampton Court Palace. 

  • Thomas Wolsey
  • Henry VIII
  • Thomas Cromwell
  • Catalina of Motril
  • Will Somer
  • Aura Soltana
  • Elizabeth I
  • Jane the "Fool"
  • William Shakespeare
  • William III and Mary II
  • Sophia Duleep Singh

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Resource Information

Key Stage

  • KS2 (age 7-11)
  • KS3 (age 11-14)
  • KS4 (age 15-16)
  • KS5 (age 16+)
  • Home Educators
  • International Schools

Subjects

  • History

Topic

  • Tudors
  • Elizabethans
  • Stuarts
  • Georgians
  • 20th & 21st Century
  • Diverse Histories

Type

  • Before you visit
  • Biographies & Fact sheets
  • Printable activities

Palace

  • Hampton Court Palace
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Editable PowerPoints for lessons

This resource includes an editable PowerPoint ready for educators to adapt, with background notes under each slide. 

Classroom resources

This resource can be used in different ways:

  • displayed on screens as a PowerPoint  
  • adapted to create printable worksheets
  • click on the images within the files to explore the paintings in more detail.

Historic enquiry

This resource supports historic enquiry, using portraits as historical sources. It contains enquiry questions for students plus background notes for teachers.

National Curriculum Links

• Supports students to extend and deepen their chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, to provide a well-informed context for wider learning.
• Supports students to identify significant events, make connections, draw contrasts, and analyse trends within periods and over long arcs of time.

 

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Key Stage

  • KS2 (age 7-11)
  • KS3 (age 11-14)
  • KS4 (age 15-16)
  • Home Educators
  • International Schools

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Tudors

Download short editable biographies of Tudor Kings and Queens for Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5. Use key facts, activities and historic sources to explore these famous monarchs. 

Key Stage

  • KS2 (age 7-11)
  • KS3 (age 11-14)
  • KS4 (age 15-16)
  • KS5 (age 16+)
  • Home Educators

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Tudors
  • Elizabethans

Go back in time to Henry VIII's Tudor kitchens and prepare a feast fit for the King! But avoid being caught as an imposter!

Key Stage

  • KS2 (age 7-11)

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Tudors