Historic Dilston

Key Stage 3

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Pupils visit the website and gather information on the life and downfall of the Radcliffes of Dilston Hall in the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745.

Themes Investigate the political and religious changes of the period through the story of a significant northern family who supported the Jacobite cause.

(Key element 2b)

Analyse and explain reasons for, and the results of, the Union of the Crowns, and the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745.

(Key element 2c)

Activities
Use the Thinking Skills Jacobite Mystery as a stimulus for further research into the Union of the Crowns, the advent of the Hannoverians and the Radcliffes of Dilston and the Jacobite cause.
For Jacobite Mystery Click Here & save to disk (25kb Word.doc)

Literacy Contemporary extracts - legend – poetry. Drama Trial of James Radcliffe.

Using the map calculate distance from Dilston to Preston.

Moral dilemma - to rebel or not.

Period portraits and landscapes.