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Medieval London gallery AD 410 – 1558

Use the gallery plan and pictures to FIND and DISCUSS the objects in this trail. Read text panels and captions for further information. Encourage enquiry and extend ideas by further questioning. The objects do not need to be seen in number order. We suggest different pupils are given different starting points, in order to spread pupils across the gallery.

Extension Activities • look around and CHOOSE your favourite object. What can you find out about it? • Bring pencils and sketch pads to draw and make notes about your discoveries.

Medieval London Gallery trail Medieval London Gallery trail for schools

1 Find this brooch 4 Find this leather found in a woman’s jerkin and try grave. What on the replica might it tell us costumes nearby. about her life? Who might have Brooches like this owned it? Jerkins are rare and were were fashionable worn by aristocratic Anglo-Saxon ladies. for men and Archaeologists found her grave in what is boys, and by the late 1500s were also now Covent Garden, site of the settlement popular with women. Perhaps it belonged of Lundenwic. Watch the film nearby. to an apprentice from one of the guilds. Discuss why Lundenwic was established The medieval guilds were associations of and what happened to the walled Roman merchants and craftsmen, with control city after the Romans left. over trade and manufacture.

2 Can you read the 5 This handwritten words ÆLFRED REX medieval manuscript (‘King Alfred’) on is from a book of this silver penny? religious chants written It was issued in Latin on parchment, around 880, when made from animal skin. the Anglo-Saxons Compare it with the regained control of books printed by the London area from the Vikings. On the William Caxton, who other side it says LVNDONIA (medieval set up a printing press in London and Latin for London). Find the listening post published books in English, rather than further into the gallery to hear some Latin, Latin. Discuss why the invention of printing Old English and other languages spoken in was so important, and why relatively cheap medieval London. books led to more people learning to read.

3 Look at the pilgrim badges. 6 These melted remains Discuss what a pilgrimage of a stained glass is and why people collected window were left by souvenirs like this. Look the Tudor demolition around for evidence of the gang who demolished power and wealth of the Merton Priory in Catholic Church and how 1538. Many Catholic it dominated everyday life. religious buildings There were many religious buildings in were destroyed during London including churches, monasteries the Dissolution of the Monasteries ordered and hospitals. Many people looked to by Henry VIII. Discuss the impact of this the Catholic Church to explain disastrous on people’s lives. What would it be like to events such as the Black Death. be forced to change your religion?

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