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 the Middle Ages for KS3 History.

High-quality full colour resource organised into topics with key words pinpointed, activities throughout and supported by three accompanying workbooks.

Contents:

Welcome to the Middle Ages!

The Norman Conquest

1 Who were the Normans?

2 Where did they come from?

3 The fight for the English throne

4 Rivals do battle

5 Saxon soldiers

6 Norman soldiers

7 The story told by the Bayeux Tapestry

8 Two accounts of the Battle of Hastings

9 How did Harold die?

10 Taking control

11 The Feudal System

12 The Domesday Book

13 Castles

14 Stone castles

15 Castles under attack

Medieval Society

16 How a Norman person was named

17 Norman food

18 Norman clothes

19 Norman games and pastimes

20 Norman justice

21 The poor

22 The rich

23 Town life

24 Country life

25 Convents and monasteries

26 Holy men

27 Holy women

28 Women in medieval times

29 Getting married

30 Disease and death

31 The Black Death

32 Knights and Crusades

Ireland and the Normans

33 Ireland before the Normans

34 Dermot MacMurrough

35 Dermot and the Normans

36 A wedding in Waterford

37 Why the Normans came

38 The Normans invade

39 The conquest of Ulster

40 De Courcy: the Norman who wanted to be king

41 De Courcy’s legacy lives on

42 Carrickfergus Castle

43 Carrickfergus Castle — the siege

44 Carrickfergus Castle — change over time

45 Norman soldiers and Irish soldiers

46 The Greencastle skeleton

Timeline