GCSE
HISTORY (8145)
Paper 2 Shaping the Nation
Resource pack for the 2023 historic environment specified site
Sheffield Manor Lodge.
Elizabethan England, 1568–1603
The purpose of this pack is to provide you with guidance and resources to support your
teaching about the Sheffield Manor Lodge, the 2023 specified site for the historic
environment part of Elizabethan England, 1568–1603. It is intended as a guide only and you
may wish to use other sources of information about the Sheffield Manor Lodge. The
resources are provided to help you develop your students’ knowledge and understanding of
the specified site. They will not be tested in the examination, as the question targets AO1
(knowledge and understanding) and AO2 (explaining second order concepts).
AQA GCSE HISTORY (8145) Paper 2 Shaping the Nation Resource pack for the 2023 historic environment
specified site Sheffield Manor Lodge. Elizabethan England, 1568–1603 2023
IB/M/Jun23/E1 8145/2B/C
, 2
General guidance
The study of the historic environment will focus on a particular site in its historical context and should
examine the relationship between a specific site and the key events, features or developments of the
period. As a result, when teaching a specified site for the historic environment element, it is useful to
think about ways of linking the site to the specified content in Parts 1, 2 and/or 3 of the specification.
There is no requirement to visit the specified site as this element of the course is designed to be
classroom based.
Students will be expected to answer a question that draws on second order concepts of change,
continuity, causation and/or consequence, and to explore them in the context of the specified site and
wider events and developments of the period studied. Students should be able to identify key
features of the specified site and understand their connection to the wider historical context of the
specific historical period. Sites will also illuminate how people lived at the time, how they were
governed and their beliefs and values.
The following aspects of the site should be considered:
• location, function and the structure
• people connected with the site e.g. the designer, originator and occupants
• the design and how the design reflects the culture, values, fashions of the people at the time
• how important events/developments from the depth study are connected to the site.
Students will be expected to understand the ways in which key features and other aspects of the site
are representative of the period studied. In order to do this, students will also need to be aware of
how the key features and other aspects of the site have changed from earlier periods. Students will
also be expected to understand how key features and other aspects may have changed or stayed the
same during the period.
IB/M/Jun23/E1
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Sheffield Manor Lodge
Mary, Queen of Scots, arrives in England
On 16 May 1568 Mary, Queen of Scots, arrived on the Cumbrian coast of England after seven eventful
years in Scotland. In the previous year she had been implicated in the murder of her second husband,
Henry Darnley, and was now married to the Earl of Bothwell, the main suspect for the murder. Her
scandalous behaviour had lost her the support of both the Catholic and Protestant Scottish nobles,
who went on to defeat her army at the Battle of Langside on 13 May 1568. Mary fled to England hoping
that her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, would help her regain the throne of Scotland.
On her arrival in England Mary was first placed under the protection of Elizabeth’s Privy Councillor, Sir
Francis Knollys, and escorted to Carlisle Castle. It wasn’t until November 1570, nearly a year and a
half after her arrival in England, that Mary was brought to Sheffield under the protection of George
Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury.
This portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, during her captivity in England is dated 1578 but
was painted after her death and during the reign of her son, King James I. It and similar
ones are known as the ‘Sheffield Portraits’ because they were inspired by an original
portrait of the Queen painted by Nicholas Hilliard while she was at Sheffield Manor Lodge
in 1578.
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IB/M/Jun23/E1
HISTORY (8145)
Paper 2 Shaping the Nation
Resource pack for the 2023 historic environment specified site
Sheffield Manor Lodge.
Elizabethan England, 1568–1603
The purpose of this pack is to provide you with guidance and resources to support your
teaching about the Sheffield Manor Lodge, the 2023 specified site for the historic
environment part of Elizabethan England, 1568–1603. It is intended as a guide only and you
may wish to use other sources of information about the Sheffield Manor Lodge. The
resources are provided to help you develop your students’ knowledge and understanding of
the specified site. They will not be tested in the examination, as the question targets AO1
(knowledge and understanding) and AO2 (explaining second order concepts).
AQA GCSE HISTORY (8145) Paper 2 Shaping the Nation Resource pack for the 2023 historic environment
specified site Sheffield Manor Lodge. Elizabethan England, 1568–1603 2023
IB/M/Jun23/E1 8145/2B/C
, 2
General guidance
The study of the historic environment will focus on a particular site in its historical context and should
examine the relationship between a specific site and the key events, features or developments of the
period. As a result, when teaching a specified site for the historic environment element, it is useful to
think about ways of linking the site to the specified content in Parts 1, 2 and/or 3 of the specification.
There is no requirement to visit the specified site as this element of the course is designed to be
classroom based.
Students will be expected to answer a question that draws on second order concepts of change,
continuity, causation and/or consequence, and to explore them in the context of the specified site and
wider events and developments of the period studied. Students should be able to identify key
features of the specified site and understand their connection to the wider historical context of the
specific historical period. Sites will also illuminate how people lived at the time, how they were
governed and their beliefs and values.
The following aspects of the site should be considered:
• location, function and the structure
• people connected with the site e.g. the designer, originator and occupants
• the design and how the design reflects the culture, values, fashions of the people at the time
• how important events/developments from the depth study are connected to the site.
Students will be expected to understand the ways in which key features and other aspects of the site
are representative of the period studied. In order to do this, students will also need to be aware of
how the key features and other aspects of the site have changed from earlier periods. Students will
also be expected to understand how key features and other aspects may have changed or stayed the
same during the period.
IB/M/Jun23/E1
, 3
Sheffield Manor Lodge
Mary, Queen of Scots, arrives in England
On 16 May 1568 Mary, Queen of Scots, arrived on the Cumbrian coast of England after seven eventful
years in Scotland. In the previous year she had been implicated in the murder of her second husband,
Henry Darnley, and was now married to the Earl of Bothwell, the main suspect for the murder. Her
scandalous behaviour had lost her the support of both the Catholic and Protestant Scottish nobles,
who went on to defeat her army at the Battle of Langside on 13 May 1568. Mary fled to England hoping
that her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, would help her regain the throne of Scotland.
On her arrival in England Mary was first placed under the protection of Elizabeth’s Privy Councillor, Sir
Francis Knollys, and escorted to Carlisle Castle. It wasn’t until November 1570, nearly a year and a
half after her arrival in England, that Mary was brought to Sheffield under the protection of George
Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury.
This portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, during her captivity in England is dated 1578 but
was painted after her death and during the reign of her son, King James I. It and similar
ones are known as the ‘Sheffield Portraits’ because they were inspired by an original
portrait of the Queen painted by Nicholas Hilliard while she was at Sheffield Manor Lodge
in 1578.
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IB/M/Jun23/E1
