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Life in Tudor England: was there a 'Golden Age' for the poor?

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In this unit, pupils assess the extent to which Elizabethan England represented a 'Golden Age' for the poor. They examine the causes of poverty in this period and learn about contemporary responses to this growing problem before evaluating whether things improved for this group.

This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding of Elizabeth I's reign that they developed in the previous unit and their knowledge of the medieval poor built in the unit on medieval Norwich. This unit prepares pupils for later studies of ordinary lives and the poor, such as the year 8 unit examining whether industrialisation revolutionised people's lives.

  1. The problem of poverty in Tudor England
  2. Growing population in Elizabethan England
  3. Social life for the poor in Tudor England
  4. Tudor attitudes to poverty and the Elizabethan Poor Law (1601)
  5. The impact of the Elizabethan Poor Law
  6. Was there a ‘Golden Age’ for the poor in Elizabethan England?

  • Pupils know that there was a big difference between the lives of the rich and the poor in early modern societies.
  • Pupils know that people feel that monarchs have a duty of care to their people.
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