Welcome to Normans and Castles Resources to help develop your topic.
As well as the resource links on this page below, a visit to Clitheroe Castle can also bring your topic to life and is well worth a visit.
How to use this page: Click on an area of Normans and Castles from the tabs on the left to reveal links and suggestions for pre and post learning.
Here you will find our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Normans & Castles: 1066.
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Information about the battle of 1066
Website about the Bayeux tapestry and the battle of 1066
Information about the Norman conquest
A range of information about 1066
8 things you don't know about the Battle of Hastings
BBC guide to the people involved in the Battle of 1066
Detailed guide to the people and the events of 1066
Here you will find our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Normans & Castles: Weaponry.
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Find out about warfare in the Norman times
Information about Norman knights
Details of how armour has changed up to the Norman period
Knight vocabulary and definitions
Make your own Norman helmet
Find out about weapons used in castles and steps to becoming a Knight in this interactive resource
Imagine you are a Knight, could you design and make your own coat of arms?
Here you will find our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Normans & Castles: Types of Castles.
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Information and activity to build a motte and bailey castle
Diagrams of types of castles
Find out what it would be like to live in a Norman castle
Would you have want to live in a Norman castle? Imagine you could live in a Norman castle in modern times. What do you think would be the advantages and disadvantages? Make an argument for or against.
Watch demonstrations constructing a Norman castle in minecraft.
Interactive resource about Windsor castle
Easy to read information about castles
Information about castles in the Norman period
Here you will find our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Norman People.
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Information about Norman architecture
Information about Norman architecture and art
Information about Norman people
An animation exploring what life was like after the Norman conquest
Imagine you are an Anglo-Saxon. Make a diary explaining how you felt after the Norman conquest.
Information about the origins of Norman people
Here you will find our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Normans: Domesday Book.
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Find out about the Domesday book
Information about the Domesday book
Animation about the Domesday book