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Available
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Publication
Scholastic (2011), Edition: 1, 176 pages
Description
History with the nasty bits left in! 'The 20th Century' takes you from the last days of the vile Victorian Queen right up to the nostalgic Nineties, with all the amazing changes and incredible inventions that happened in between. Want to know who shocked the world by showing her knickers, how two monkeys and a dog became astronauts, and why a posh London restaurant served stewed cat? From the suffering Suffragettes to Bill and Ben, from Charlie Chaplin to Margaret Thatcher, this is horrible history as you've never seen it before - because you're part of it! History has never been so horrible!
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LibraryThing member eglinton
A fun read, as this series unfailingly provides, with of course the usual corny but worthy illustrations. Not the best place to discover the broad sweep of an era (natch) but some HH books do give a better flavour than this one, a bit dated itself already (from 1996, before that century’s end),
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and overly saddled at times with heart-rending testimonies of social deprivation. Find out just how painful the force-feeding of suffragettes was. But it’s all interesting, some of it surprising, and in picking out the quirky, piquant, and funny details, gives plenty of airtime to entertaining oddities and tabloid fodder celebs – step forward once more Lord Lucan and the Rector of Stiffkey... Show Less
LibraryThing member books-n-pickles
Horrible Histories are automatic 4s. Love them!
Original language
English
Physical description
176 p.; 5.31 inches
ISBN
1407111922 / 9781407111926
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