Archives, Libraries & Museums
This place stores original historical documents
What is an archive?
A source made at the time of an event.
What is a primary source?
The battle fought on 14 October 1066.
What is the Battle of Hastings?
The survey ordered by William in 1086.
What is the Domesday Book?
The large mound in a Motte and Bailey castle.
What is the motte?
This place stores books and journals.
What is a library?
A source created after an event by someone who was not there.
What is a secondary source?
Harold Godwinson defeated this Viking leader at Stamford Bridge.
Who was Harald Hardrada?
The word meaning making power secure after gaining control.
What is consolidation?
The enclosed courtyard below the motte.
What is the bailey?
This place displays artefacts such as weapons and pottery.
What is a museum?
Is a photograph usually a primary or secondary source?
What is a primary source?
William was known by this title before becoming king.
Who was the Duke of Normandy?
William built these across England to control people.
What are castles?
This castle type had several rings of walls.
What is a concentric castle?
Give one example of a document you might find in an archive.
Letter, diary, government record, map.
Name one advantage of a secondary source.
Summarises information from many sources / broader explanation
Name two reasons William won the Battle of Hastings.
Harold's army tired; Norman cavalry; Norman archers; feigned retreat; Harold killed.
The brutal campaign carried out in northern England in 1069–1070.
What is the Harrying of the North?
Name three castle features.
Keep, moat, drawbridge, gatehouse, battlements, towers, arrow slits
Archives, libraries and museums each preserve history in different ways. Explain one difference.
Archives store original documents; libraries store published materials; museums store artefacts.
Explain one disadvantage of a primary source.
May be biased / only one point of view.
Explain how Stamford Bridge contributed to William's victory.
Harold's army marched a long distance and was tired before Hastings.
Explain two ways William consolidated Norman rule.
Castles, Domesday Book, Harrying of the North, replacing Anglo-Saxon nobles.
Explain why concentric castles were stronger than Motte and Bailey castles.
Stone construction, multiple walls, stronger defences, harder to attack.