History Wider Reading

Want to find out more about the past? Perhaps read some of these books:

KS3

I Want To Live

(Stalinist Russia) Eliza Rose (Tudor

Britain)

Grenade (WWII

Japan)

The Ruby in the

Smoke (Victorian

Britain)

The Eagle of the

Ninth (Roman

Britain)

A Place to

Belong (WWII

USA and Japan)

Dream Country

(American

History)

Voyage on the

Great Titanic

When Hitler Stole

Pink Rabbit (WWII)

Pompeii

(Ancient

Rome)

Edelweiss

Pirates (WWII)

Don’t forget the

favourites:

Anne Frank: The Diary

of a Young Girl

The Boy in the Striped

Pyjamas

Horrible Histories

Hetty Feather

KS4 - Elizabeth

Medicine

AMERICA

The Time Traveller’s

Guide to Elizabethan England

The Queen’s

Favourite series

Watch the Lady (The Essex Rebellion)

Shakespeare: The

World as a Stage

Others:

Elizabeth: The

Forgotten Years

How to be a

Tudor

Blood and Guts: A Short

History of Medicine

The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval

England

The Knife Man:

The Birth of

Modern Surgery

Blood and Guts: A

History of Surgery

Others:

The Butchering

Art: Joseph Lister

A Medical History

of Humanity

The Great

Gatsby

The Help To Kill a

Mockingbird

The Grapes

of Wrath

Others:

Twelve Years a Slave

The Bell Jar

Seabiscuit

Go Tell it on the Mountain

Autobiographies of Martin

Luther King, Malcolm X and

other civil rights activists

KS5

Schindler’s Ark

(WW2)

The Spy who came in from

the Cold (Cold War)

Fatherland (WW2)

Stasi Child (Cold War) The Color Purple

(Civil Rights)

Bury My Heart at Wounded

Knee (Native Americans)

Wolf Hall (Henry

VIII) The Women’s Room

(Women’s Movement)

A Life in the Vanguard

(Trade Unions)