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
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Since starting his career as an author, Martin Oliver has written over 20 books for children covering subjects as wide-ranging as pirates, pharaohs and puzzle adventures. He's also written two titles in the popular Knowledge series, Dead Dinosaurs and Groovy Movies (Scholastic Publishing) Martin lives in Teddington, near London, with his wife, Andrea, and th
More about Martin OliverAndrew lives in Mallorca and works as an illustrator, painter and muralist.
He has had numerous one man exhibitions in Mallorca and has work in various public and private collections As an illustrator he has worked on more than twenty books, mainly for children, in Catalan, Spanish and English.
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