A Painful History of Childhood (series)

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Freestyle and Freestyle Express: A Painful History of Medicine (series)

This series traces the extraordinary, sometimes gruesome and even bizarre development of medicine throughout the ages. Medical breakthroughs from ancient civilisations right up to the modern age, and even into the future, are put into social and cultural contexts. Incredible practices, fascinating beliefs and medical theories, some of which are considered harmful today, are revealed.

The Freestyle Express series runs parallel to the Freestyle series, with simplified text and an attractive layout making it easier for less confident readers to follow.

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Freestyle and Freestyle Express: On the Front Line (series)

Each book in the On the Front Line series covers a key 20th century conflict in an approachable and enthralling way. Whilst focusing on the idea of conflict and change, and their impact on the lives of the people on the frontline, the series incorporates fascinating real life tales, delivering historical facts in an exciting and readable way.

The Freestyle Express series runs parallel to the Freestyle series, with simplified text and an attractive layout making it easier for less confident readers to follow.

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Freestyle and Freestyle Express: Time Travel Guides (series)

Pack your bags for a trip through history to visit the great ancient civilisations with the Freestyle and Freestyle Express Time Travel Guides! Written in the style of a travel guide, each title in this new series gives an entirely new way of looking at ancient civilisations that'll be sure to hook all budding historians.

The Freestyle Express series runs parallel to the Freestyle series, with simplified text and an attractive layout making it easier for less confident readers to follow.

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Freestyle: A Painful History of Childhood (series)

The latest addition to our popular Painful History series provides readers with a fascinating look at how life as a child has dramatically changed through the ages, from ancient times to modern day. Each title takes an aspect of life to which all children can relate, such as school, illness and family, in order to examine how children have been treated - and mistreated - throughout history.

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Freestyle: A Painful History of Crime series (series)

Read about the gory, strange and often terrifying crimes and punishments that have occurred throughout history. Ideal for reluctant readers, this series focuses on the more off-beat crimes and highlights all kinds of gruesome punishments, many of which still exist in some form somewhere in the world today.

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Freestyle: True Crime (series)

A fascinating series on crime that appeals to the most reluctant of readers. Specially created for struggling pupils with a reading age of 8+. Concentrating on famous criminal cases and the infamous people involved, this 'Freestyle' series appeals to lower ability readers, particularly boys. From historical to modern-day crimes, examples are used to engage and motivate pupils to read.

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