It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: \* who was sentenced to death - by coffee? \* where you could be whipped for flying a kite? \* why a cockerel was burnt at the stake? Find out the truth about brutal school beatings, test you local policeman, and see if you can escape beheading in the Tower of London game.

 

This book is part of a book series called Horrible Histories .

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Scholastic .

Mike Phillips is the author of several books and screenplays as well as his award-winning Sam Dean novels. In 1997 he was Writer in Residence at London's South Bank Centre. The author of over 115 books, including the top selling Horrible Histories series, Terry Deary is one of the most successful children's writers today. He sells one million books a year and is the most borrowed British author in school libraries.