Terry Deary writes children’s history, humour and fiction, best known for the Horrible Histories series. Books such as The Terrible Tudors, The Rotten Romans and The Vicious Vikings present historical periods through jokes, gruesome details, quizzes and accounts of ordinary life rather than formal chronological survey. Deary has also written historical fiction, plays and other children’s series, but Horrible Histories defines his readership. The books are fast, irreverent and deliberately interested in executions, disease, bad food and embarrassing facts that conventional school texts often leave out. The Terrible Tudors, Rotten Romans and other Horrible Histories books work because historical facts are filtered through jokes, disgust and ordinary-life detail, giving children memorable entry points into periods they may later study more formally. Read more Less
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