Investigating Tudor Times

Tyne & Wear Archives
Keystages: KS2 (not suitable for Y3), KS3
Subject: History, English
03 Sep 12 - 19 Jul 13 - Booking required

Discover life in Tudor Newcastle through transcribing extracts from the Chamberlains’ Accounts – the city treasurers’ records.

Get to grips with 16th Century English and maths. Find out how much it cost to keep ‘ii blinde wiffes’, whip a boy for doing evil - and how historians use archives like these to build a social portrait of the period.

Charges: £60

This session can be offered in the Archive Education room in Discovery Museum or in your local school.

 

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