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Focusing on the Crusades, this is one of a history series, modular in structure, which offers teachers the flexibility to design their own scheme of work at Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum. Each book covers all the core study units and also a wide range of optional units, and aims to be visually stimulating as well as offering activities which develop both skills and understanding. An extensive selection of primary and secondary sources is provided. Each pupil book is accompanied by a tea...

Step back in time to an ancient world of mythical beasts, bow down to gods and goddesses, and take a trip to the first Olympics in this illustrated guide. Become an eyewitness to the glory of ancient Greece in this picture-led reference guide that will take you on a visual tour of what classical Greece was like. Children will be mesmerised by striking photography, maps, paintings, and lots of artefacts to help understand what life was like at this time.This illustrated guide lets kids aged 9+ ex...

Buried underground, hidden in overgrown jungles and forests and deep under the sea, lost treasure lies waiting to be discovered. You can find out what life was like long ago.

This visually stunning series focuses on world heritage sites, representative of different eras, peoples, places and historical events. The reader is given a narrative tour of each site to discover what can be learned from the surviving evidence - why and how the place was built, the daily lives of the people who lived there and the surviving evidence that can help us to reconstruct the place when it was in use.

This stunning new series contains biographies of significant individuals who can be said to embody a period of history. Each book: - traces an individual's role and impact - contrasts their life with that of people from different sections of society - the legacy of each individual is also assessed - sources are explored - how do we know about them? - a timeline, glossary and index

A topic based approach to a great civilisation through five books, each covering a different aspect of that civilisation. The history in these books explores how people lived and draws out what our own society has learnt from the ancient civilisation. Focuses on primary sources and what they tell us about people, events and changes in the society in question. Each book contains: - further reading and websites - glossary and index

Divided into two main sections - A History of Greece and Culture and Society - this newly revised edition provides a wide range of information on several topics. The first section presents historic military and political events that shaped the Greek world, including the siege of Troy, the warlike Spartans, and Alexander the Great's campaigns. The second section details the effect the Greeks had on the lands they occupied. Full-page maps that orient readers in the geographical context begin this...

Sumptuous and richly illustrated, this book brings the ancient world to life, examining the growth and s pread of major cultures and civilisations around the globe a nd how archaeologists interpret the traces that exist today. '

Ten chapters introduce and develop themes, as well as providing a variety of further activities, in this book that looks at the Romans in Britain. Basic understanding is tested in the "can you remember?" and "check your understanding" sections of each chapter, while source-based questions and "things to do" encourage the development of specific historical skills. Dorothy Metcalf uses a wide variety of archaeological and written sources to open a window onto the everyday world of Roman Britain. G...

Unlike most books that chronicle the history of Native peoples beginning with the arrival of Europeans in 1492, this book goes back to the Ice Age to give young readers a glimpse of what life was like pre-contact. The title, Turtle Island, refers to a Native myth that explains how North and Central America were formed on the back of a turtle. Based on archeological finds and scientific research, we now have a clearer picture of how the Indigenous people lived. Using that knowledge, the authors t...