Look insideHorrible Histories: Slimy Stuarts (Classic Edition)
The classic bestseller! No more boring nice-guy nonsense about history. It’s time to learn it the horrible way. Which means taking a look at the Stuarts. Yes, really! OK, maybe you’ve never heard of the Stuarts. They don’t sound very terrible, do they? But this book will tell you different! They ate toads, snails and fleas, and wore fish on their feet. Ugh! They had a nose-picking king who never washed his hands. Plus – there was fire, plague, the Gunpowder Plot and a savage civil war. Get the horrid facts – then test your teacher!
- A bestselling original Horrible Histories classic
- Full of jokes, cartoons, quizzes and funny facts
- Written in Terry Deary’s brilliantly witty style
- Over 25 million Horrible Histories books sold
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Fun Stuff
Quizzes
Activities
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Horrible Histories Puzzle Activity
Follow the puzzle to find out what each of the knights won in their tournament.
Recent reviews
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Best history book.
4 March 2014
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A dangerous book!
9 March 2013
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Terry Deary has made a brilliant, educational set of books! They teach you all about how the people of the past live! I would recommend an age range of 8-12 for this book
6 March 2013
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a good and funny way to learn history, i have all of the books and i really enjoy all the different series!
6 March 2013
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A fun read, Great learning about the Stuarts! :)
6 March 2013
Who's reading this?
Authors
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Terry Deary
Terry is a former actor, theatre-director and Drama teacher and currently lives in County Durham. He has written over 150 books in the UK, including 44 Horrible Histories titles, and was voted the fifth most popular living children’s author in a 2005 Guardian survey.
Awards
Terry Deary won the 2001 Blue Peter Prize for Rotten Romans.
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