Top

Awfully Ancient: Thomas Crapper, Corsets and Cruel Britannia

On sale

8th September 2016

Price: £8.99

Select a format

Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780750289986

Disclosure: If you buy products using the retailer buttons above, we may earn a commission from the retailers you visit.

Welcome to the incredible Industrial Revolution! Grab a pie, peruse the past with us and discover all there is to know about the Victorians: from pioneering plumbing and constricting corsets to choking chimneys.

Why were pea-soupers perilous? Why were Victorian streets teeming with turds? Who spent their childhood up chimneys?

Dig into this diary of days gone by and find the answers to these valuable Victorian questions and many more…

Reviews

Parents In Touch
This kind of approach to history has become hugely popular in recent years and children respond well to this way of learning, even those who may formerly have found history boring