Boudica and Her Barmy Army

Boudica and Her Barmy Army
Author: Valerie Wilding
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2011
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 9781407124124

Everybody knows that Boudica went galloping to battle in a big chariot, and became very angry with her Roman rulers. But in this book readers will find out all the things they didn't know, such as how she burned London to the ground and chopped off the Emperor Claudius's head (well, sort of). Everything you ever wanted to know about the queen with the barmy army.

Women in Formal and Informal Education

Women in Formal and Informal Education
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2023-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004525696

Understanding the processes related to gender construction requires a multi and interdisciplinary approach. Complexity emerges as a category of investigation and an end to be pursued, giving space to a plurality of voices, interpretations, and points of view. With such intellectual curiosity, the volume's authors questioned the inclusion and exclusion of these multiple voices in education. How has teaching on gender made room for this complexity? What views were included? Which ones were overlooked? What have educational models for children been privileged in the imagination? Which histories and stories have accompanied them in acquiring an awareness linked to gender? Through such important questions and many more, the volume highlights the gender changes that took place from mid-eighteen century to today in various contexts relating to formal and informal education through an international comparative perspective. The multiplicity of approaches, methodologies, and perspectives allows us to read and analyze these changes in a composite way, underlining little-known aspects of gender studies in the historical-educational field.

Reading History in Children's Books

Reading History in Children's Books
Author: Catherine Butler
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2012-07-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137026030

This book offers a critical account of historical books about Britain written for children, including realist novels, non-fiction, fantasy and alternative histories. It also investigates the literary, ideological and philosophical challenges involved in writing about the past, especially for an audience whose knowledge of history is often limited.

Fearless Fitzroy

Fearless Fitzroy
Author: Kathy Henderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2005
Genre: Cats
ISBN: 9781844286331

Fitzroy works in the Famous Chocolate Biscuits warehouse - if you can call it work. In fact, he sleeps so much that mouse parents for miles around think he is perfect as cat practice for their mouselets. But when the factory owner arrives, a whisker-pulling accident gives Fitzroy the fright of his life - and ends up saving him his job! An ideal book for those just learning to read alone.

Horrible Histories: Rotten Romans

Horrible Histories: Rotten Romans
Author: Terry Deary
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-02-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 140716175X

Go back into the really rotten times of the Romans, where there were beastly battles, deadly doctors and marvellous myths. Discover what Roman soldiers wore under their kilts, how ancient Britons got their hair nice and how Romans told the future with dead chickens. With a bold, accessible new look, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. Revised by the author to make Horrible Histories more accessible to young readers.

Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans

Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans
Author: Terry Deary
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2012-07-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1407133330

Ruthless Romans reveals the grim goings-on of the greatest empire ever, from the terrible twins who founded Rome to the evil emperors who made murder into a sport. Read on for gory details about the cruel Colosseum and the people and animals who were massacred there... and find out how, if you upset them enough, the ruthless Romans would CRUCIFY you. Eeek!

Horrible Histories: Terrifying Tudors

Horrible Histories: Terrifying Tudors
Author: Terry Deary
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2011-11-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1407129457

Do you like your history horrifying? Then the Terrifying Tudors will tantalise you! Shudder at the mad Tudor monarchs and their suffering subjects, who were always losing their heads. Discover what Tudors did in the good times and the gory times, from their great goose fairs and foul festivals to the terrible tricks of their ruthless royal family.

Money for Nothing

Money for Nothing
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2009-05-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1409063747

A P.G. Wodehouse novel The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to be rudely disrupted. First there's a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall, rich but miserly Lester Carmody. Second, that arch-villain Chimp Twist has opened a health farm - and he and Soapy and Dolly Molloy are planning a fake burglary so Lester can diddle his insurance company. After the knockout drops are served, things get a little complicated. But will Lester's nephew John win over his true love, Colonel Wyvern's daughter Pat, and restore tranquillity to the idyll? It's a close-run thing...