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Cruel Crime (Horrible Histories) 2017-09-13

Crammed full of 7000 years of law-makers and law-breakers with a rogue's gallery of pirates, witch-finders, highwaymen, torturers, traitors and tyrants. Read on for horrible hangings, putrid prisons and terrible transportation. It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: \* who was sentenced to death - by coffee? \* where you could be whipped for flying a kite? \* why a cockerel was burnt at the stake? Find out the truth about brutal school beatings, test you local policeman, and see if you can escape beheading in the Tower of London game.

- lakshit