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The Battle of Hastings, 1066
A summary of this famous battle..
Supports: textbooks 'Saxons', '1066', and 'Castle'.
Playing time: 12 min (109)
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Introduction: classroom cinema
Introduction, by visiting a castle and explaining what each of its features is.
Supports: textbook 'Castle'.
Playing time: 12 min (V108)
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Building a castle in class 1
Shows how to make a castle to scale using photographs from the textbook.
Supports: textbook 'Castle'.
Playing time: 13 min (V277)
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Building a castle in class 2
Shows how to make a castle to scale using photographs from the textbook.
Supports: textbook 'Castle'.
Playing time: 18 min (V278)
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Windsor Castle
Where, why and how the castle was built and remodelled over a thousand years.
Supports: History: medieval, castle; Geography: settlement
Playing time: 6 min
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The real story of Domesday
How and why the Domesday Book came to be written.
Supports: textbook History: 1066; Medieval Britain
Playing time: 6 min
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The Magna Carta
The story of the world's most important legal document.
Supports: textbook History: Medieval
Playing time: 10 min
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Corfe castle
A classic hilltop castle
Supports: textbook History: Medieval
Playing time: 10 min
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A Knight's Tomb
The resting place of a medieval knight.
Supports: textbook 'Castle'.
Playing time: 2 min (V279)
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Barnard Castle
This video shows the bridging point at Barnard Castle in County Durham.
Supports: textbook 'Castle'.
Playing time: 3 min (V255)
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Medieval walled town
Glurns in northern Italy is an almost intact medieval town that shows what all European towns would have looked like in medieval times. It has a complete wall.
Supports: textbook 'Castle'.
Playing time: 7 min (V228)
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York Shambles
A walk through the old market area of York, close to the Minster and inside the city walls.
Supports: textbook 'Castle'.
Playing time: 4 min (V1039)
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Chester
A walk through Chester, including its market.
Supports: textbook 'Castle'.
Playing time: 9 min (V1038)
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Making pottage
A video showing a pottage being cooked. For most of the rich and all of the poor, pottage was eaten every day. This video explains what it was, why it was made, and how it lasted as a key meal not only in medieval times, but from its Stone Age beginnings right through to the present day.
Supports: textbook 'Castles'.
Playing time: 8 min (V1040)
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Making flour by hand
This video shows grain being ground by hand using a pestle and mortar to produce flour. People in the past had to grind corn manually like this to make the flour needed to make bread.
Supports: textbook 'Castles'.
Playing time: 4 min (V970)
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