The first pupil book in a groundbreaking Key Stage 3 series designed to grab pupils' attention with its fresh approach to traditional content.

Presenting the Past 1 includes

* Interpreting the Battle of Hastings

* Matilda's bid for power

* Royal murder mysteries: the death of William Wallace
The power of religion, includes

* The heretic test: will you be burnt alive?

* Holy journey or holiday: were all pilgrims religious?

* Why were the Jews mistreated?
Medieval people: did they have a hard life?, includes

* Finding out more about medieval people

* How smelly were medieval towns?

* Death at the Tower of London

This is volume 1 in Presenting the Past .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Tony McAleavy, Humanities Adviser, Gloucestershire; member of the QCA team who wrote the KS3 History Scheme of Work; author of Conflict in Ireland; Andrew Wrenn, History Adviser, Cambridgeshire; co-author of Minds and Machines (Longman Think Through History); KeithWorrall, Humanities Adviser, Doncaster; co-author of History Investigations