Readers can discover all the foul facts about the MEASLY MIDDLE AGES, including why chickens had their bottoms shaved, a genuine jester's joke and what ten-year-old treacle was used for. With a bold, accessible new look, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.

I bet you've never even heard of the Stuarts. They don't sound very terrible, do they? But did you know some slimy Stuarts ate toads, snails and fleas?

The Measly Middle Ages Activity Book is stuffed with killer quizzes, gruesome games and amazing mazes to bring all those nutty knights and revolting peasants to life. Want to: * create your very own menacing medieval knight? * become a fearsome fighter in a jousting tournament? * try some revolting recipes that will beat any slimy school-dinners? Puzzle your parents with Terry Deary's foul facts and stun your schoolmates with Martin Brown's crafty cartoons. With a push-out medieval knight to dress for battle, the Measly Middle Ages will keep you armed with the facts

"Want to know: Why the vicious Vikings had names like Fat-thighs, Oaf and Stinking? Which Viking god dressed up as a woman? A genuine jester's joke? Why medieval chickens had their bottoms shaved? Discover all the facts about the Vicious Vikings and Measly Middle Ages--double the gore and more"--Page 4 of cover.

Do you like your history horrifying? Then the Terrifying Tudors will tantalise you! Shudder at the mad Tudor monarchs and their suffering subjects, who were always losing their heads. Discover what Tudors did in the good times and the gory times, from their great goose fairs and foul festivals to the terrible tricks of their ruthless royal family.

Following a hugely successful first series, Rattus Rattus and the rest of the Horrible Histories gang are returning to the smallcreen for another 13 episodes in spring 2010. In this special tie-in edition readers can discover all the foul facts about the Smashing Saxons including who got cow pats as Christmas presents, why wearing a pig on your head is lucky and how to make a dead Saxon happy.

Go back into the really rotten times of the Romans, where there were beastly battles, deadly doctors and marvellous myths. Discover what Roman soldiers wore under their kilts, how ancient Britons got their hair nice and how Romans told the future with dead chickens. With a bold, accessible new look, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. Revised by the author to make Horrible Histories more accessible to young readers.

What do they all mean – the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protruding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to social constraints flourished. Medieval image-makers focused attention on the underside of society, the excluded and the ejected. Peasants, servants, prostitutes and beggars all found their place, along with knights and clerics, engaged in impudent antics in the margins of prayer-books or, as gargoyles, on the outsides of churches. Camille brings us to an understanding of how marginality functioned in medieval culture and shows us just how scandalous, subversive, and amazing the art of the time could be.