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The Global Tudors
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This education pack encourages KS3 and KS4 pupils to examine what portraits can reveal about Tudor England's growing connections to the wider world.
It was made by Dr Lauren Working in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Contact us
If you have any questions, get in touch with Lauren at: lauren.working@york.ac.uk
Why the global Tudors?
New studies of the Tudors and Stuarts are placing these dynasties -- and British history more broadly -- within a framework of global exchange and migration. Learn to ask new questions about portraits in the National Portrait Gallery's collection, and to think critically about the dynamics of travel, global production, and exchange that informed their creation.You could explore this resource alongside Lauren's new introduction to Shakespeare’s Tempest for Oxford World's Classics.