Terry Deary Books in Order

Seven children face a new history teacher and a frantic journey through the centuries in this comic stage play. Built for performance as well as reading, it turns a millennium of history into fast scenes, jokes, and historical chaos.

A quiz-packed romp through a thousand years of history, mixing questions, answers, and the series’ favorite foul facts. Readers can test themselves on rulers, wars, inventions, disasters, and the strange details that school lessons often skip.

A child-focused guide to the Stone Age that considers early humans, Neanderthals, archaeology, cave art, mummies, and Stonehenge. It uses offbeat facts and quizzes to show how evidence from prehistoric life is discovered and interpreted.

An illustrated history of World War II that follows wartime experiences on the home front and in combat, from Britain’s Dad’s Army to young people defending Berlin. Striking true details convey how widely the conflict affected civilians and soldiers.

A seasonal history book that explores Christmas food, customs, carols, traditions, and celebrations from different times. Alongside festive facts, it gathers eerie stories, unusual historical practices, and disasters connected with the holiday.

This quiz book draws on the Horrible Histories series, inviting readers to test their knowledge of a millennium of history. Its questions and answers turn the series’ historical subjects into a challenge for curious readers.

This introduction to the Incan Empire looks at its people, customs, rulers, and religion, including the empire’s vast reach and its conquest by Spanish invaders. Quizzes and macabre historical details accompany the account of everyday life and sacred traditions.

A comic, fact-filled history of the British Empire, tracing how it expanded across the world and examining conquest, slavery, rebellion, and the consequences for colonized peoples. The book highlights strange, grim, and revealing episodes from imperial rule.

A medieval-history activity package that examines knights, peasants, monks, the Black Death, schooling, food, and daily life in the Middle Ages. Alongside facts, recipes, and games, it includes novelty items intended to extend the book’s gross-out approach to learning.

This nonfiction volume surveys 7,000 years of crime and punishment, following lawbreakers and law enforcers from pirates and highwaymen to witch-finders and tyrants. It explores prisons, executions, transportation, and other harsh ways societies have dealt with crime.

An illustrated look at ancient Rome, from the city’s legendary founders to emperors, public spectacles, and the violence of the Colosseum. It focuses on the brutal customs, power struggles, and everyday horrors that lay behind the Roman Empire’s grand reputation.

This anniversary pack pairs a Tudor history book with a set of Horrible Histories playing cards. It explores Tudor rulers, peasants, criminals, curious remedies, and period games, while adding card-based activities for readers who want to bring the foul play off the page.

A fast-moving, illustrated survey of world history that follows humanity from early prehistory to twentieth-century wars. Its chapters spotlight civilizations, invasions, torture, rebellion, crime, exploration, and notorious villains, emphasizing the violent and bizarre details often skipped in textbook overviews.

A 2004 Horrible Histories activity book by Terry Deary focused on ancient Egypt. No reliable catalog synopsis was available to confirm its specific activities or contents.

This history of Britain’s Second World War home front covers blackout rules, air raids, rationing, evacuation, and the everyday shortages faced by civilians. It also looks at wartime slang, food substitutes, and real-life stories behind familiar images of the Blitz.

A chronological, illustrated guide to the First World War that follows the conflict from its outbreak through trench life and the home front. It addresses soldiers, civilians, women’s changing roles, wartime communication, animals, food, and the harsh conditions faced by both sides.

An irreverent tour of Britain under George I through George IV, bringing together the period’s monarchs, social customs, and unsettling details. Short factual sections and cartoons introduce readers to the stranger, harsher, and more memorable sides of Georgian life.

An interactive introduction to ancient Greece, filled with quizzes, games, mazes, and facts about Greek heroes, enslaved people, myths, and the Olympic games. Readers can also assemble a push-out Greek soldier and use the activities to explore daily life and legends.

A 2004 Horrible Histories sticker book by Terry Deary centered on the Romans. No reliable catalog synopsis was available to confirm its specific activities or contents.

This Horrible Histories volume explores Anglo-Saxon Britain through its invasions, customs, and everyday oddities. Terry Deary mixes historical facts about the Saxons with questions about their food, beliefs, luck, and battles with later Norman invaders.

A wide-ranging collection of strange, grisly, and amusing historical facts, moving from Roman graffiti and royal nicknames to punishments, odd foods, famous animals, and bizarre disasters. It is designed for browsing rather than following a single period or storyline.

A comic, fact-packed introduction to Stuart Britain, from James I’s accession through royal rivalries, religious persecution, the Gunpowder Plot, and civil war. It also explores strange customs and everyday life under the Stuart monarchs.

A lively history of Norman England centered on William the Conqueror, the Battle of Hastings, and the people who fought for power after 1066. It also ranges through Norman customs, crusading, piracy, and the unpleasant side of conquest.

A Viking-themed sticker and puzzle book that uses word games, picture challenges, and reusable stickers to explore Norse gods and Scandinavian raiders. Activities invite readers to stage battles, make offerings to the gods, and follow the logic of a Viking invasion.

A 2004 Horrible Histories activity book by Terry Deary focused on Victorian Britain. No reliable catalog synopsis was available to confirm its specific activities or contents.

Terry Deary examines the harsher and stranger sides of Victorian Britain, including crime, policing, inequality, and life for children and women. Martin Brown’s illustrations accompany stories and facts about the era’s criminals, social rules, and eccentric characters.

A Horrible Histories guide to London’s past, gathering gruesome, unusual, and turbulent episodes from the city’s history. Terry Deary approaches the capital through accessible facts and darkly comic historical details aimed at younger readers.

This hands-on companion to The Measly Middle Ages offers quizzes, games, mazes, recipes, and a press-out medieval knight. Activities and cartoons introduce aspects of medieval life, from knights and jousting to peasants and food.

A 2005 Horrible Histories sticker book by Terry Deary centered on the Stuarts. No reliable catalog synopsis was available to confirm its specific activities or contents.

A broad, illustrated trip through world history, from early people and ancient civilizations to wars and modern conflict. Short, comic sections focus on the disasters, strange customs, cruel rulers, and unexpected details that make history hard to forget.

A compact guide to medieval knights that looks beyond armor and chivalry. It covers training, tournaments, castles, weapons, battle injuries, and the rough lives of people caught up in wars and crusades.

This handbook explores the harsh reality behind pirate legends, from shipboard life and stolen treasure to mutiny, punishment, and famous raiders. Quick facts and cartoons show why the sea could be every bit as dangerous as the shore.

This illustrated handbook follows fighters from different eras, looking at how they trained, fought, survived, and sometimes failed. It combines famous battles and warriors with the dirtier details of weapons, wounds, discipline, and military life.

A fact-filled guide to witchcraft fears, magic, accusations, and trials through history. It explores superstition and persecution, showing how ordinary people could be blamed, punished, and killed when communities went looking for someone to fear.

Rescued from a dangerous life as an Edinburgh chimney sweep, Bairn thinks his luck has changed. Instead, his new job draws him into a plot against Queen Victoria, leaving him to wonder whether freedom has brought him closer to the gallows.

A young character is swept into a dangerous Tudor adventure centered on the Tower of London. Court politics, royal suspicion, and the threat of punishment turn this historical tale into a fast-moving introduction to the darker side of the period.

A quick, illustrated look at First World War trench life, covering mud, rats, lice, shellfire, food, medicine, and fear. It explains how soldiers on the front line endured the daily dangers behind the larger story of the war.

This handbook introduces some of history’s most feared and notorious people, from cruel rulers to criminals and traitors. Short profiles, lists, and cartoons examine what they did, why they were feared, and how their actions affected others.

This Roman adventure places its young characters near the dangers of life on the empire’s frontier. As conflict, harsh discipline, and the massive wall reshape their world, they must find a way through a crisis with consequences beyond their control.

In 1940, Alf Turner and Sally Midwell are evacuated after German bombing strikes Coventry. The countryside proves far from safe when Sally falls under the control of a frightening woman, and Alf must help plan a dangerous escape.

This guide examines the Blitz through air raids, shelters, blackouts, rationing, evacuation, and civilian life. It balances wartime facts with strange details about how families, children, and emergency workers managed during repeated attacks.

A collection of hundreds of jokes rooted in historical people, places, and events. Cartoons accompany the puns and gags, making this a humor-focused companion to the history facts and themes of the Horrible Histories series.

A large Tudor-themed activity book packed with historical facts about monarchs and executions, alongside word games, quizzes, and stickers. It offers an interactive tour of the Tudor court and its most notorious rulers.

A hands-on board book with five press-out projects drawn from historical settings. Readers can assemble models including a Roman arena, pirate, knight, executioner, and pyramid puzzle, then use the included play and construction ideas.

Set in the Viking age, this historical adventure follows young people caught between raiders, violence, and the ruins left behind by invasion. The story brings the fear and uncertainty of the period close while keeping the pace quick and readable.