This enquiry focuses on one of the key migrant groups of the early modern period: the Flemish.
They arrived in England for various reasons, and went on to have a significant impact on English cultural life.
It is intended to give students the chance to be ‘real’ historians. They are tasked with navigating their way around a brilliant historical database, ‘England’s Immigrants’.
Your students find out more about individual Flemish migrants, whose lives we know a little about due to tax records, letters of denization, and various licenses and grants.
It’s a fantastic way of opening students’ eyes to the work of historians. From experience, they come away from the lesson with a real sense of insight and satisfaction!
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- Lesson presentation: PowerPoint
- Lesson write-up: PDF
- Worksheet 1-3: PDF
