Timeline
About this learning resource
Format: Power Point Presentation
Download an editable timeline of the Tower of London for Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5. Use dates, key facts and activities to explore the history of the Tower. Including events such as:
- White Tower building
- Menagerie at the Tower
- Suffragette protests.
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Resource Information
Key Stage
- KS3 (age 11-14)
- KS4 (age 15-16)
- KS5 (age 16+)
- Home Educators
- International Schools
- KS2 (age 7-11)
Subjects
- History
Topic
- Historic Environment
- Castles
Type
- Timelines
- Printable activities
Palace
- Tower of London
Why was the Tower of London built?
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.
National Curriculum Links
- Extend and deepen chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, to provide a well-informed context for wider learning.
- Identify significant events, make connections, draw contrasts, and analyse trends within periods and over long arcs of time.
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