Children's Books on Modern & Contemporary History

Ireland: The People, The Places, The Stories

By Rachel Pierce, Dara O Briain, Ashling Lindsay, Diarmuid O Cathain, Graham Corcoran

Victorian Tales: Terror on the Train (Terry Deary's Historical Tales)

By Deary, Terry, Flook, Helen

Victorian Tales: The Fabulous Flyer

By Terry Deary, Helen Flook

Tracking Down: The Victorians in Britain

By Liz Gogerly

Queen Victoria

By Susanna Davidson, Various

Second World War

By Henry Brook, Ian McNee

World War I Tales: The Bomber Balloon

By Deary, Terry

Sporting Heroes

By Jane Bingham

World War II: Army

By John Townsend

Gorgeous Georgians (newspaper edition)

By Terry Deary, Martin Brown

The Lost Diary of Queen Victoria’s Undermaid (Lost Diaries S.)

By Parsons, Alex

The World of the Pirate

By Val Garwood, Richard Berridge

Kings and Queens of Scotland

By Eileen Dunlop, Antony Kamm

Blood-curdling Box of Books

By Terry Deary, Martin Brown

Black in Time: The Most Awesome Black Britons from Yesterday to Today

By Alison Hammond, E. L. Norry

World War I

By Clive Gifford

Coming to England

By Floella Benjamin, Diane Ewen

Henry VIII

By Jonathan Melmoth

Lark Rise to Candleford

By Flora Thompson

History Snapshots: Children and World War II

By Sarah Ridley

The National Archives: World War I: The Story Behind the War that Shook the World

By Nick Hunter (Children's and Educational Publishing Consultant)

Town Mouse House

By Nigel Brooks, Abigail Horner

Who Broke the Wartime Codes? (Primary Source Detectives)

By Nicola Barber

On the Home Front

By Ann Kramer

The Big Book of Football by MUNDIAL

By MUNDIAL, Damien Weighill

Royal Nursemaid

By Jill Atkins

Woeful Second World War (Horrible Histories)

By Deary, Terry, Brown, Martin

First World War Pack

By Henry Brook

When Fishes Flew: The Story of Elena's War

By Michael Morpurgo

School

By Catherine Burch