Teaching History backwards: 3generational TimeSpace Frames An example:

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Teaching History backwards 3-generational
Time-Space Frames - An example

• Sophia Alexandra -----
• (surname temporarily withheld)

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Sophia Alexandra -----

• Sophias life 1876 1948
• Her fathers life 1838 - 1893
• Her grandfathers life 1780 1839

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Sophia, bottom right, with her sisters, behind,
and brother, bottom left, who died as a child.
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Sophia selling Suffragette newspapers in London
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Elveden church in Norfolk whats this got to do
with it?
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Elveden Hall in Norfolk whats this got to do
with it?
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Elveden Hall
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Elveden churchyard, Norfolk Sophias parents
graves
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This is also Sophia still English?
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? Sophias fathers grave at Elveden
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Master of Elveden HallSophias fatherDuleep
Singh(fourth best shot in Britain at the time)
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Elveden church graveyard in Norfolk has become a
major post on the Sikh heritage map of Britain
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A Sikh visitor to Duleep Singhs grave
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We are more used to seeing Sikhs as taxi drivers?
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Or bus drivers?
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The interior of Elveden Hall, Norfolk, which
Duleep Singh had decorated in the style of..
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His fathers palace in Lahore, in the Punjab (now
Pakistan)
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which is still there today, here being renovated
in 2004
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Duleep Singh as a young man
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in Sikh ceremonial costume
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Seated, centre, with his two eldest daughters, on
a hunting party gathering with Prince, later King
-----, centre, Queen Victorias son
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A painting of Duleep Singh
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A bust of Duleep Singh
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Maharaja Duleep Singh
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Duleep Singh, as an older man, by which time he
was associating with critics of the British
Empire, regained his Sikh faith, after a stinging
comment from his mother, and tried to regain his
former Sikh empire in the Punjab.Reaching Aden,
he was arrested by the British spy network, and
died in a Paris hotel.
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Many books and films have been written about this
life.
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Going back another generation, this is Ranjit
Singh, the (one-eyed) Lion of the Punjab
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Unifier of the Sikh empire of the Punjab, Ranjit
was the last-but-one Maharaja, respected, even
feared, by the British, as they annexed land all
around India, but decided to wait till Ranjit
died, before annexing the Punjab, and deposing
his son Duleep.
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Maharaja Ranjit Singh in his palace in Lahore in
old age
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An example of the splendour of the Punjab under
Ranjit
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Ranjits rule is recorded in artwork
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Ranjit Singh leading his army into battle as a
younger man
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Even into older age
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The grandeur of the Sikh army under Ranjit Singh
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Ranjit Singh holding court in Lahore
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Portrait of Ranjit Singh
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Featured on an Indian stamp more recently
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Ranjit recorded in artwork
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Playing with children
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A portrait of the Maharaja
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Meeting (respectful) British leaders(Ranjit is
seated centrally)
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An outburst from -------Singh criticising the
British, republished more recently
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A statue of Ranjit Singh inThetford, Norfolk
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The statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Thetford,
Norfolk
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Opened by Prince Charles, with present British
Sikh community leaders

• There is some irony here, in a tribute to the
  Maharaja being made by the descendant of rulers
  who had deposed his son.

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A ceremonial Sikh sword presented to Prince
Charles.