Off With Their Heads!: All the Cool Bits in British History by Martin Oliver
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