Kerry Apps – History

Kerry-Louise Apps

It happened here, thoughts on Simon Newman’s ‘Freedom Seekers in Restoration London’

In the spring of 1999, my primary school class stood huddled in a closet-like space in…
Glimpsing a Lost Stuart World at Ham House

I’m excited to revive this blog as I enter the final year of my PhD project.…
The Missing Link: Early Empire and ‘Decolonising’ the Curriculum

The Thinking: If March – June 2020 was a similarity and difference enquiry and we were…
Resources to widen the Tudor World at A-Level (OCR & AQA)

Recent events have rightly heightened consciousness of the need to provide more representative and expanded curriculum…
Towards ‘Race’ and slavery: bridging the gap between the Tudors and the so-called ‘Respectable Trade’

The debate surrounding the construction of ‘race’ in the early modern period is a complex and…
Alias Rebecca

In 1613 a young woman descended the gangplank of a 130-ton ship called The Treasure. The…
Teasing out a Tapestry: Or how studying the Early Empire changed my historical perspective for life

As historians and history teachers we love a well placed analogy. For many of us the…
Five General Rules every child should get to grips with before approaching Tudor England

The inequality was real: The Tudors rigidly believed in a social hierarchy where everyone knew their…