Henry VIII turned a Catholic country into a Protestant one. Overnight, all people, no matter who they were, had to change their religion too.
Henry VIII turned a Catholic country into a Protestant one. Overnight, all people, no matter who they were, had to change their religion too.
There are lots of different jobs for the monks and the nuns to do, including working in the herb garden and making medicines.
John Ball is a priest, but only a poor one. He says the Church is too rich and he’s been travelling around the countryside encouraging peasants to rebel.
The people who live in towns are generally the traders and craftspeople. It’s where we go to buy our candles, cloth, ribbon, any extra food…
One in three people in the whole country have died. And amongst priests, the death rate is even higher.
Henry made Thomas his closest adviser and they went everywhere together. But then Henry made Thomas his Archbishop of Canterbury and it all went wrong…
Domesday means ‘Day of Judgement’. A book which is being created to assess how much wealth England has.
The feudal system. It’s a bit complicated, but I’ll try to explain it as simply as possible.
William was so very clever. He decided to trick us. He made his army pretend to run away and the stupid fools in Harold’s army fell for it.
No one knows who’s going to be King. Edward left no children so it isn’t obvious who will succeed him.