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Cruel Kings and Mean Queens by Terry Deary
Category: Reference | Series: Horrible Histories Special
Readers can discover all the foul facts about Cruel Kings and Mean Queens, including which king died after falling off the toilet, why people thought King John was a werewolf and why Queen Anne's feet were covered in garlic. With a bold look these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet an ...Show more
Cut-Throat Celts (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary
Category: Children's History | Series: Horrible Histories
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Cut-throat Celts, including why weird Celt warriors fought with no clothes on, how to preserve your enemy's brain and why the Celts laughed at funerals. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit wi ...Show more
Cut-Throat Celts (Horrible Histories Junior) by Terry Deary
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Horrible Histories Junior
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Cut-throat Celts, including why weird Celt warriors fought with no clothes on, how to preserve your enemy's brain and why the Celts laughed at funerals. With a bold new look, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation ...Show more
Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt by Terry Deary
Category: History | Series: Dangerous Days Ser.
Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks?Don't bet your afterlife on it.Ancient Egypt should be deader than most of our yesterdays. After all it was at its height 5,000 years ago. Yet we still marvel at its mummies and ponder over its pyramids. It's easy to forget these people once lived ...Show more
Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England by Terry Deary
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Series: Dangerous Days Ser.
The reign of Elizabeth I - a Golden Age? Try asking her subjects...Elizabethans did all they could to survive in an age of sin and bling, of beddings and beheadings, galleons and guns. Explorers set sail for new worlds, risking everything to bring back slaves, gold and the priceless potato. Elizabeth li ...Show more
Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England: Thieves, Tricksters, Bards and Bawds by Terry Deary
Category: History
The reign of Elizabeth I - a Golden Age? Try asking her subjects...Elizabethans did all they could to survive in an age of sin and bling, of beddings and beheadings, galleons and guns. Explorers set sail for new worlds, risking everything to bring back slaves, gold and the priceless potato. Elizabeth li ...Show more
Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire by Terry Deary
Category: Audio Books
DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE is the first in a new adult series by Terry Deary, the author of the hugely bestselling Horrible Histories, popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and sharp wit, and among adults for engaging children (and themselves) with history. The Ro ...Show more
Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire by Terry Deary
Category: History | Series: Dangerous Days
DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE is the first in a new adult series by Terry Deary, the author of the hugely bestselling Horrible Histories, popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and sharp wit, and among adults for engaging children (and themselves) with history. The Ro ...Show more
Dangerous Days on the Victorian Railways by Terry Deary
Category: History
Terry Deary's second instalment of history's terrors and torments, diseases and deaths - this time a little closer to home. Facing feuds and frauds, robberies and riots and the disasters of dangerous drivers, deadly designers and sleepy signalmen, Victorians risked more than just delays when stepping on ...Show more
Dangerous Days on the Victorian Railways: Feuds, Frauds, Robberies and Riots by Terry Deary
Category: Technology and Transport
The Victorians risked more than just delays when boarding a steam train ...Victorian inventors certainly didn't lack steam, but while they squabbled over who deserved the title of 'The Father of the Locomotive' and enjoyed their fame and fortune, safety on the rails was not their priority. Brakes were s ...Show more
Dark Knights and Dingy Castles by Terry Deary
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Horrible Histories Special
It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Why the nutty knight chopped off his own finger? The revolting truth about a gong-farmer's job? What went on in the gruesome castle garderobes? Read on and find out about dreadful dungeons, cruel crusaders, ghastly ghosts that haunt creepy British ...Show more
Deadly Days in History (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Horrible Histories S.
DEADLY DAYS IN HISTORY is the most horrible HORRIBLE HISTORIES book yet. Terry Deary and Martin Brown take a whirlwind tour through the most dreadful, disastrous and deadly days in the whole of horrible history, from the grim Great Fire of Rome to the vile St Valentine's Day Massacre, leaving the gory b ...Show more