Terry Deary

Oct 17, 2024 | waterstones.com | Alice Loxton |Dan Jones |Terry Deary |Amy Jeffs

Posted on 17th October 2024 by Mark Skinner From Alice Roberts to Ben Macintyre, here are the history books we've loved this year.

Oct 9, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Terry Deary

Who needs enemies? Everyone. They forge a nation's identity over time. England's unlikely defeat of the Spanish Armada was celebrated with songs, medals, portraits and prints. Queen Elizabeth I, previously hated, became Gloriana - an emblematic totem around whom the country could rally. Although that David vs Goliath scenario was rather hammed up, Britain faced a real mammoth task in the Second World War when the Nazi war machine launched its reign of terror onto the world.

Oct 8, 2024 | independent.co.uk | Terry Deary

You are Henry Tandey, a British soldier in the trenches of the First World War. You are about to go over the top and attack the German trenches but you’re a career soldier and know the risks. You’ve fought and survived many of the war’s greatest battles; at the Somme in 1916 you were wounded in the leg. When you recovered you returned to fight at the muddier, bloodier Passchendaele in 1917 where you were wounded again. By 28 September 1918, you are back in action at the Canal de St Quentin.

Apr 17, 2024 | standard.co.uk | Judith Chernaik |Gerard Benson |Cicely Herbert |Terry Deary

Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and WC by Lawrence Wright We dread to think of a time before the flushable toilet was invented. Yet anyone who has visited the likes of the London Dungeons on a school trip knows just how badly a street in Victorian London would’ve smelled. Lawrence Wright’s History of the Bathroom and WC was published back in 1960 and new scholarship is constantly emerging on the topic.

Jan 23, 2024 | artdependence.com | Terry Deary

Through a specially designed Horrible Histories themed trail of the exhibition, alongside a variety of family interactive stations en route, children of all ages will be guided through the show, led by Horrible Histories’ beloved character, Rattus. Rattus, who will be playfully renamed Claudius Terrattus, will take younger visitors on his journey of becoming a soldier in the Roman army and the trials and tribulations faced by those serving 2,000 years ago.