OU Reading for Pleasure Book Blether's History Recommendations!

By Norfolk Children's Book Centre

OU Reading for Pleasure Book Blether's History Recommendations!

On 2nd February, Jon Biddle and Gemma Gascoine hosted a 'Book Blether' - a discussion thread on Twitter by the @OURfP (Open University Reading for Pleasure) group, where teachers recommend books to each other. The topic of this session was History. Here's what they came up with!

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We have two other Book Blether lists on Bookshop.org, Science, Maths & Geography

Peepo!

Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg

£7.99

£7.59

Noor Inayat Khan

Sufiya Ahmed

£7.99

£7.59

The Undefeated

Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson

£7.99

£7.59

Coming to England: An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the...

Floella Benjamin and Diane Ewen

£12.99

£12.34

Home Again: Stories About Coming Home From War

Jim Eldridge, Emily Hibbs, et al.

£9.99

£9.49

Daisy and the Unknown Warrior

Tony Bradman and Tania Rex

£6.99

£6.64

When Secrets Set Sail

Sita Brahmachari

£7.99

£7.59

Fire, Bed and Bone

Henrietta Branford

£6.99

£6.64

UG: Boy Genius of the Stone Age and His Search for Soft Trousers

Raymond Briggs

£7.99

£7.59

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

£20.00

£19.00

The Short Knife

Elen Caldecott

£12.99

£12.34

Letters from the Lighthouse: 'THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL...

Emma Carroll

£7.99

£7.59

Secrets of a Sun King: 'THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION'...

Emma Carroll

£7.99

£7.59

The Somerset Tsunami: 'The Queen of Historical Fiction at her...

Emma Carroll

£7.99

£7.59

The Ghost Garden

Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez

£6.99

£6.64

The Girl Who Walked On Air: 'The Queen of Historical Fiction...

Emma Carroll

£7.99

£7.59

Sky Chasers

Emma Carroll

£7.99

£7.59

Strange Star: 'The Queen of Historical Fiction at her...

Emma Carroll

£7.99

£7.59

When we were Warriors: 'The Queen of Historical Fiction at...

Emma Carroll

£7.99

£7.59

Frost Hollow Hall: 'The Queen of Historical Fiction at her...

Emma Carroll

£7.99

£7.59

Make More Noise!: New stories in honour of the 100th...

M.G. Leonard, Jeanne Willis, et al.

£7.99

£7.59

The Story of Windrush

K. N. Chimbiri

£6.99

£6.64

The History of Everything in 32 Pages

Anna Claybourne and Jan Van der Veren

£14.99

£14.24

Vlad and the Great Fire of London

Kate Cunningham and Sam Cunningham

£9.18

Trailblazer: Lily Parr, the Unstoppable Star of Women's Football

Elizabeth Dale and Carolina Coroa

£7.99

£7.59

The Grotlyn

Benji Davies

£7.99

£7.59

Maps of the United Kingdom

Rachel Dixon and Ms. Livi Gosling

£19.99

£18.99

Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies

DK

£12.99

£12.34

A Street Through Time: A 12,000 Year Journey Along the Same...

DK and Steve Noon

£10.99

£10.44

Great Diaries: The world's most remarkable diaries, journals,...

DK

£20.00

£19.00

Edgar & Adolf

Phil Earle and Michael Wagg

£7.99

£7.59

Voyage of the Sparrowhawk: Winner of the Costa Children's...

Natasha Farrant

£7.99

£7.59

The Boy with the Bronze Axe

Kathleen Fidler

£7.99

£7.59

The Matchbox Diary

Paul Fleischman and Bagram Ibatoulline

£7.99

£7.59

Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation

Anne Frank and David Polonsky

£14.99

£14.24

War Boy: A Wartime Childhood

Michael Foreman

£9.99

£9.49

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Professor Peter Frankopan

£16.99

£16.14

Odd and the Frost Giants

Neil Gaiman

£12.99

£12.34

Darwin's Dragons

Lindsay Galvin

£7.99

£7.59

Smith

Leon Garfield and Kenny McKendry

£7.99

£7.59

John Diamond

Leon Garfield

£6.99

£6.64

Coram Boy

Jamila Gavin

£8.99

£8.54

The First Drawing

Mordicai Gerstein

£14.99

£14.24

Two Sisters: A Story of Freedom

Kereen Getten

£6.99

£6.64

The Colours of History: How Colours Shaped the World

Clive Gifford and Marc-Etienne Peintre

£12.99

£12.34

Once

Morris Gleitzman

£7.99

£7.59

Timeline

Peter Goes

£20.00

£19.00

A Little History of the World

E. H. Gombrich and Clifford Harper

£10.99

£10.44

A Little History of the World: Illustrated Edition

E. H. Gombrich

£18.99

£18.04

Marie Curie and Her Daughters

Imogen Greenberg and Isabel (Illustrator) Greenberg

£12.99

£12.34

Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

Emma Griffin

£14.99

Shackleton's Journey

William Grill

£15.99

£15.19

HerStory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook the World

Katherine Halligan and Sarah Walsh

£18.99

£18.04

The House by the Lake: The Story of a Home and a Hundred...

Thomas Harding and Britta Teckentrup

£12.99

£12.34

Black Water

Barbara Henderson

£6.99

£6.64

The First King of England: The Story of Athelstan

Stuart Hill

£6.99

I am David

Anne Holm

£7.99

£7.59

The Garden of Lost Secrets

A.M. Howell

£7.99

£7.59

Displacement

Kiku Hughes

£13.99

£13.29

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

Alan Ereira and Terry Jones

£12.99

£12.34

Black Tudors: The Untold Story

Miranda Kaufmann

£10.99

£10.44

The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of...

Thomas Keneally

£10.99

£10.44

The Wild Way Home

Sophie Kirtley

£7.99

£7.59

Stone Age Boy

Satoshi Kitamura

£7.99

£7.59

A House Without Walls

Elizabeth Laird

£7.99

£7.59

Diver's Daughter: A Tudor Story (Voices #2)

Patrice Lawrence

£6.99

£6.64

The Closest Thing to Flying

UK) Lewis Somerset Gill (

£6.99

£6.64

Toby and the Ice Giants

Joe Lillington

£11.99

£11.39

The Apartment: A Century of Russian History

Alexandra Litvina and Anna Desnitskaya

£17.99

£17.09

The British History Timeline Wallbook

Christopher Lloyd and Andy Forshaw

£12.99

£12.34

Britannica All New Children's Encyclopedia: What We Know &...

Britannica Group

£27.00

£25.65

Survivors: BLUE PETER AWARD WINNER

David (Author) Long and Kerry Hyndman

£10.99

£10.44

Heroes: Incredible true stories of courageous animals

David (Author) Long and Kerry Hyndman

£10.99

£10.44

Rescue

David (Author) Long and Kerry Hyndman

£10.99

£10.44

Back Home

Michelle Magorian

£7.99

£7.59

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You...

Tim Marshall

£9.99

£9.49

Prisoners of Geography: Our World Explained in 12 Simple Maps

Tim Marshall

£16.99

£16.14

Where the World Ends

Geraldine McCaughrean

£7.99

£7.59

The Skylarks' War: Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award

Hilary McKay

£7.99

£7.59

The Island at the End of Everything

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

£7.99

£7.59

The Midnight Guardians

Ross Montgomery

£7.99

£7.59

History Atlas

Thiago de Moraes

£20.00

£19.00

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook...

Ian Mortimer

£10.99

£10.44

1066 and Before That - History Poems

Brian Moses and Roger Stevens

£5.99

£5.69

Corpse Talk: Dead Good Storytellers

Adam Murphy and Lisa Murphy

£9.99

£9.49

Corpse Talk: Ground-Breaking Scientists

Adam Murphy and Lisa Murphy

£9.99

£9.49

Corpse Talk: Queens and Kings

Adam Murphy and Lisa Murphy

£9.99

£9.49

Corpse Talk: Ground-Breaking Rebels

Adam Murphy and Lisa Murphy

£9.99

£9.49

Cinderella of the Nile

Marjan Vafaeian and Beverley Naidoo

£7.99

£7.59

Son of the Circus - A Victorian Story

E. L. Norry

£6.99

£6.64

Black and British: A short, essential history

David Olusoga

£7.99

£7.59

White Bird: A graphic novel from the world of WONDER - soon...

R J Palacio

£12.99

£12.34

After the War: From Auschwitz to Ambleside

Tom Palmer and Violet Tobacco

£7.99

£7.59

D-Day Dog

Tom Palmer and Tom Clohosy Cole

£6.99

£6.64

Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World

Ms Kate Pankhurst

£6.99

£6.64

The Story of Tutankhamun

Patricia Cleveland-Peck and Isabel (Illustrator) Greenberg

£14.99

£14.24

The Head that Wears a Crown: Poems about Kings and Queens

£12.00

£11.40

The Golden Horsemen of Baghdad

Saviour Pirotta and Freya Hartas

£6.99

£6.64

Now or Never: A Dunkirk Story (Voices #1)

Bali Rai

£6.99

£6.64

Mohinder's War

Bali Rai

£6.99

Riddle of the Runes

UK) Wyatt Devon David ( and UK) Ramirez Oxfordshire Janina (

£7.99

£7.59

Empire's End - A Roman Story (Voices #4)

Leila Rasheed

£6.99

£6.64

Where the Poppies Now Grow

Hilary Robinson and Martin Impey

£9.99

£9.49

Flo of the Somme

Hilary Robinson and Martin Impey

£9.99

£9.49

A Song for Will: The Lost Gardeners of Heligan

Hilary Robinson and Martin Impey

£14.99

£14.24

Peace Lily: The World War 1 Battlefield Nurse

Hilary Robinson

£9.99

£9.49

The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II

Michael Rosen

£8.99

£8.54

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the...

Hallie Rubenhold

£10.99

£10.44

The Anzac Billy

Claire Saxby, Mark Jackson, et al.

£11.99

£11.39

Town Is by the Sea

Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith

£8.99

£8.54

Forgotten Beasts

Matt Sewell

£12.99

£12.34

Survivors of the Holocaust

Kath Shackleton

£9.99

The Buried Crown

Ally Sherrick

£6.99

£6.64

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the...

Margot Shetterly

£12.99

£12.34

Roman Soldier's Handbook

Lesley Sims and Ian McNee

£6.99

£6.64

She Wolf

Dan Smith

£7.99

£7.59

The Vanishing Trick

Jenni Spangler and Chris Mould

£6.99

£6.64

Our Castle by the Sea

Lucy Strange

£7.99

£7.59

Viking Voyagers

Jack Tite

£16.99

£16.14

Arthur and the Golden Rope

Joe Todd-Stanton

£8.99

£8.54

Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx

Joe Todd-Stanton

£8.99

£8.54

Kai and the Monkey King

Joe Todd Stanton

£8.99

£8.54

Leo and the Gorgon's Curse

Joe Todd-Stanton

£12.99

£12.34

Little People, BIG DREAMS: Music Stars: 3 books from the...

Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

£25.00

Little People, BIG DREAMS: Women in Art: 3 books from the...

Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

£25.00

£23.75

Little People, BIG DREAMS: Women in Science: 3 books from the...

Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

£25.00

£23.75

Little People, BIG DREAMS: Black Voices: 3 books from the...

Lisbeth Kaiser, Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, et al.

£25.00

£23.75

Ancient Wonders

Iris Volant and Avalon Nuovo

£12.99

£12.34

Ancient Warriors

Iris Volant and Joe Lillington

£12.99

£12.34

Ancient Games: A History of Sports and Gaming

Iris Volant and Avalon Nuovo

£12.99

£12.34

Fireweed

Jill Paton Walsh

£7.99

£7.59

Child of St Kilda

Beth Waters

£12.99

£12.34

The Machine Gunners

Robert Westall

£7.99

£7.59

Blitz

Robert Westall

£6.99

£6.64

The Kingdom by the Sea

Robert Westall

£7.99

£7.59

The Story of Flight

Jakob Whitfield and Us Now

£12.99

My Secret War Diary, by Flossie Albright

Marcia Williams

£15.99

£15.19

Archie's War

Marcia Williams

£15.99

£15.19

The Mysterious Life of Dr Barry: A Surgeon Unlike Any Other

Lisa Williamson

£6.99

£6.64

Big Ideas For Young Thinkers: 20 questions about life and the...

Jamia Wilson and Andrea Pippins

£14.99

The Raven's Children

Yulia Yakovleva

£6.99

£6.64

Windrush Child

Benjamin Zephaniah

£7.99

£7.59

Great Lives in Graphics: Martin Luther King

Books Button

£9.99

£9.49

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