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History Wider Reading
Want to find out more about the past? Perhaps read some of these books:
KS3
I Want To Live
(Stalinist Russia) Eliza Rose (Tudor
Britain)
Grenade (WWII
Japan)
The Ruby in the
Smoke (Victorian
Britain)
The Eagle of the
Ninth (Roman
Britain)
A Place to
Belong (WWII
USA and Japan)
Dream Country
(American
History)
Voyage on the
Great Titanic
When Hitler Stole
Pink Rabbit (WWII)
Pompeii
(Ancient
Rome)
Edelweiss
Pirates (WWII)
Don’t forget the
favourites:
Anne Frank: The Diary
of a Young Girl
The Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas
Horrible Histories
Hetty Feather
KS4 - Elizabeth
Medicine
AMERICA
The Time Traveller’s
Guide to Elizabethan England
The Queen’s
Favourite series
Watch the Lady (The Essex Rebellion)
Shakespeare: The
World as a Stage
Others:
Elizabeth: The
Forgotten Years
How to be a
Tudor
Blood and Guts: A Short
History of Medicine
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval
England
The Knife Man:
The Birth of
Modern Surgery
Blood and Guts: A
History of Surgery
Others:
The Butchering
Art: Joseph Lister
A Medical History
of Humanity
The Great
Gatsby
The Help To Kill a
Mockingbird
The Grapes
of Wrath
Others:
Twelve Years a Slave
The Bell Jar
Seabiscuit
Go Tell it on the Mountain
Autobiographies of Martin
Luther King, Malcolm X and
other civil rights activists
KS5
Schindler’s Ark
(WW2)
The Spy who came in from
the Cold (Cold War)
Fatherland (WW2)
Stasi Child (Cold War) The Color Purple
(Civil Rights)
Bury My Heart at Wounded
Knee (Native Americans)
Wolf Hall (Henry
VIII) The Women’s Room
(Women’s Movement)
A Life in the Vanguard
(Trade Unions)