Reading List

Reading list

Below are all the topics you study in Year 7 and Year 8 with a reading list to go above and beyond. Come and lend them from Room E!

Medieval Ages reading

The Middle Ages Unlocked: A Guide to Life in Medieval England, 1050-1300- Gillian Polack

How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages- Christopher Tyerman

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A handbook for visitors to the fourteenth century- Ian Mortime

Thomas Becket- John Guy

tudors reading

The Terrible Tudors- Terry Deary

The Little Book of the Tudors- Annie Bullen

A Brief History of the Tudor Age- Jasper Ridley

How to be a Tudor- Ruth Goodman

World War One Reading

World War 1: A History from Beginning to End: Henry Freeman

World War One: The Unheard Stories of Soldiers on the Western Front Battlefields

A History of the First World War in 100 objects- John Hughes Lewis

You wouldn't want to be in the Trenches in World War One!- Woolf

World War One- History in an Hour- Rupert Colley


slave trade reading

The Slave Trade: History of the Atlantic Trade- Hugh Thomas

The Last Slave Market- Alastair Hazell

holocaust reading

Irma Grese and Auschwitz- Raymond Jennings

Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust- Allan Zullo

civil war reading

Civil War at First Hand- Tristan Hunt

The English Civil War- Diane Purkiss

Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans- C. Firth