The New Elizabethans
Year 6 Scheme of Work
By Steven Mastin, history teacher at Sawston Village College in collaboration with Mike Paduano (Shelford Primary School). Web Editor: Simon Brown., published 16th November 2010
The New Elizabethans: life in Britain at the 1953 coronation
Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum.
This unit centres on life in Britain at the 1953 coronation and how people at the time looked back to the reign of Elizabeth I.
This is one a set of Year 6 schemes of work arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transitions Project.
Introduction
The New Elizabethans
- Why has the photographer arranged his picture like the painting?
- What was life like in the 1950s?
- How were people in Britain feeling during the 1950s?
- Was the first Elizabethan Age a golden age?
- How did the new Elizabethans choose to remember the old Elizabethans?
- Why did some British people in the 1950s describe themselves as new Elizabethans?