Containing bits from British history, this book seeks to inspire a love of history that can last a lifetime. It is suitable for a gift from parent to child and a learning companion to help all school children get to grips with British history, without the boring bits.

Features fifty foul people from history. This title is divided into ten sections, including: Awful Assassins, Rotten Rebels, Wicked Women, Crazy Criminals, and Ruthless Rulers, that follow a different format - stories, newspaper articles, diary entries, fact files and so on.

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Want to know - a very rude pantomime song? Why making Christmas pudding used to be a crime? How to get rid of carol singers? This title tells you the festive facts you wanted to find out.

All through history, children have been getting into some serious scrapes. And they didn't often get off lightly. This title takes you on a guided tour through the lives of outlaw children from history, their dastardly crimes and awful punishments.

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Anne Frank kept a diary from 1942 to 1944. Initially she wrote it strictly for herself. Then, one day in 1944, a member of the Dutch government in exile announced in a broadcast from London that after the war he hoped to collect accounts of the suffering of the Dutch people under the German occupation, which could be made available to the public.

For as long as history has been recorded, girls haven't had much of a look in amongst all the great men we remember. But that doesn't mean they weren't there. And it doesn't mean that they didn't achieve great things, come up with wonderful inventions or win battles! This book shows that History is actually Her-story.

From cracking codes to the pitfalls of navigating camel poo in the desert, this book helps you discover if you have everything it took to be a WWII spy. It is suitable for aspiring secret agents.

Covers the popular GCSE syllabus and includes key facts and dates for students. This basic revision book provides explanations and hints, and includes colourful maps and pictures.

Including 'mini-sections', this book also contains easy recall questions to test your progress; exam-style questions on each topic; a full practice exam; detailed worked answers with hints; and a mark scheme.

RRP 49.90. Ten of the best selling Horrible Histories titles in a special boxed set edition. Contains Angry Aztecs, Awesome Egyptians, Gorgeous Georgians, Groovy Greeks Measly Middle Ages, Rotten Romans, Terrible Tudors, Incredible Inca's, Vicious Vikins, & Vile Victorians. 2k FS @ 6.50

SHP History is a major new book-per-year course for Key Stage 3 History. It takes the best of the old and the best of the new to create a dynamic and coherent course for a new generation of history pupils. This is the third book in the series which provides a course for Y9

Want to know - Who made a meal out of maggots? Which smelly soldiers were sniffed out by their enemies? Why white knickers could kill you? This title lets you discover the foul facts about the Woeful Second World War.

It's August AD 78 and Claudia is at the Forum in Pompeii. It's a day of strange encounters and even odder portents. When the ground shakes Claudia is convinced it is a bad omen. What does it all mean? And why is she so disturbed by Vesuvius, the great volcano that looms over the city.

From early Roman Londinium to the blasting by the Blitz, the author presents the nasty bits of London's glorious - and goriest - history.

What Roman soldiers wore under their kilts? How Ancient Britons got their hair nice and spikey? Why rich Romans needed a vomitorium? This title lets you discover the foul facts about the Rotten Romans.

Helps to take a look at the mad Tudor monarchs and their suffering subjects - who just couldn't help losing their heads. This title also helps to discover who invited Queen Lizzie to visit his brand new toilet and what you get when you sew the front of a chicken to the back of a pig. It presents the history with the nasty bits left in.

What vile Victorian parents called their children? Who had a gruesome glass eye for every occasion? When the first public loo was flushed? This title lets you discover the foul facts about the Vile Victorians.