Category: Horrible Histories & Facts
The truth is often stranger than fiction. Need proof? In England, in the 1880s, pants was considered a dirty word. Statistically, you are more likely to be attacked by a cow than a shark. The sun loses close to a billion kilograms of weight every second. An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the most horrible facts about the Gorgeous Georgians ready for readers to uncover, including their sneaky schemes for hiding personal hygiene problems and the schoolchildren who went to war with their teachers. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the foul facts about the Vile Victorians are ready to uncover, including the murderers who wouldn't hang, when the first public loo was flushed and how stag hunting took place in Paddington Station. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit wi ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts
Kill or Cure takes a good look at surgeons and healers, covering early surgical practices and operations including a very famous patient Louis X!V and his successful albeit excruciating operation in his bottom region! Through to the start of early anaesthesia...what a relief that must have been!
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the foul facts about the Measly Middle Ages are ready to uncover, including why chickens had their bottoms shaved, a genuine jester's joke and what ten-year-old treacle was used for. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another g ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the foul facts about the Terrifying Tudors are ready to uncover, including 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. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the most horrible facts about the Groovy Greeks ready for readers to uncover, including why girls ran about naked pretending to be bears, who had the world's first flushing toilet and why dedicated doctors tasted their patients' ear wax. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestsell ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the Awful Egyptians' most horrible facts ready for readers to uncover, including why the Egyptian people worshipped a dung beetle, which pharaoh married her grandfather and what the 'Shepherd of the Royal Backside' had to do! Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles a ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Fiendish Rulers | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
Ruthless and brave, that's me, ruler of all Japan. You bow low, but I know you are no samurai - so I will honour you with my iron-fisted rules for keeping in power, not just for my own great self but my great dynasty. I'll who you how: the samurai code is my life - it inspires terror (good) my soaring c ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the foul facts about the Frightful First World War are ready to uncover, including what the 'Fat King' did with food scraps and dead horses, how sniffing your own pee could save your life in a gas attack and why a pair of old socks gave away top German secrets. Refreshed with a fantastic new design ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the foul facts about the Woeful Second World War are ready to uncover, including why the blitzed Brits ate chicken-fruit, sinkers and nutty, what really happened in Dad's Army and how to make a rude noise with a gas mask. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are s ...Show more
Category: Horrible Histories & Facts | Series: Horrible Histories
All the foul facts about the Vicious Vikings are ready to uncover, including including Viking Gods in wedding dresses, corpses on trial and Death by booby-trapped statues. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Te ...Show more
