Off With Their Heads!
Author: Martin Oliver
Categories: Learning is Fun
Age range: From 8 years to 12 years
Price: £7.99
Publication date: 1 October 2009
ISBN: 9781906082727
About the book:
Off With Their Heads, the follow-up to the bestselling Thirty Days Has September, is bursting with the best bits from British history. This book will inspire a love of history that will last a lifetime and is a lovely gift from parent to child to help all school children get to grips with British history.
Contents include:
• Rules to remember the rulers of Britain
• Clue-up on the cruel fate of all six of Henry VIII's wives
• Become an expert on the inventions of the Industrial Revolution
• Be wise to the bloody battles of the Hundred Years War
• Swat-up on stories of the Saxons' successes
• Get to grips with the gunpowder plot
• Understand the Easter Uprising
• Roam about in Roman Britain
• What was the War of the Roses?
• Learn a poem to understand the events leading up to WW1
Reviews:
''The best way to teach history to children is by being honest about the gory lusts of our ancestors... unlike the Horrible Histories series, this one book gives us all the important bits of British history boiled down to palatable chunks... and it's perfectly illustrated. I'd have loved this when I was younger' — Waterstones Books Quarterly
'In just 125 pages you will zoom through time, from the Ice Age to today' — Sunday Express