KS2History

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Try this lesson from our Stone Age to Iron Age unit for FREE - including Powerpoint slides, printable activities and a detailed lesson plan for KS2.
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Need books that bring Ancient Greece (KS2) to life? 🏛️

Our revised, curated booklist is ready for your topic planning.

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STONE AGE BOOKLIST - updated for Sept 2025!
We only feature quality texts on our booklists!

👀 Browse our curated list of children's books about the Stone Age to Iron Age history topic! Here's the recommended book list:
➡️➡️ https://t.co/SAiRoOil5V

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🔎 Looking for topic books for an ANCIENT EGYPT topic? We've unwrapped the best for KS2!

Egypt booklist: ➡️➡️ https://t.co/W7Jih9wsQW

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🎩📚 VICTORIANS topic booklist:
➡️ https://t.co/za7q9XaVfy

🚂 Known as an age of invention & industrial development as well as an era of poverty, child labour & crime, the Victorian period was a time of great contrasts.

Check out our KS2 list of Victorian-themed topic books.

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⚡️Romans Topic Booklist https://t.co/Uqk29qw8Fm

Check out our Romans booklist for KS2, featuring top recommended children's books about the Romans...

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We love learning about the Stone Age to Iron Age history topic!
Here's our recommended booklist: https://t.co/SdJdBS6M91

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🎩📚 VICTORIANS topic KS2 booklist:
➡️➡️ https://t.co/za7q9XaVfy

🚂 Known as an age of invention & industrial development as well as an era of poverty, child labour & crime, the Victorian period was a time of contrasts.

Check out our list of Victorian-themed children's books.

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⚡️Romans Topic Booklist ⚡️
➡️➡️ https://t.co/Uqk29qw8Fm

Conquer the topic with our Romans booklist for KS2, which is regularly updated to aid the quest to find recommended children's books about the Romans...

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👋 Delighted to welcome @J_C_Pearson to our blog, whose new book Shrapnel Boys is out now: https://t.co/ecyFCVoWyJ

Jenny tells us about the fascinating wartime phenomenon of children collecting shrapnel as a way to allow fear and trauma to be processed in manageable pieces...

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🇬🇧🫖NEW on the blog: VE Day Children’s Books

On 8th May, schools & communities will mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, celebrating 80 years since the end of WW2 in Europe.

See 5 children's book recommendations for the 80th Anniversary of VE Day: ➡️➡️ https://t.co/iamU0Y5Iyb

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🪓 VIKINGS 🪓 topic booklist: https://t.co/ykDeaaWtpn

🐲🛖🗺️ The Vikings topic offers a hoard of fascinating themes for children to dig into.
Raid our history BOOKLIST to find the best Viking-themed children’s books for KS2.

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⛏️Digging into an ANCIENT EGYPT topic?

🔎 We've unwrapped some of the best children's books about the Ancient Egyptians!

➡️ See the KS2 Ancient Egypt topic booklist here: https://t.co/W7Jih9vV1o

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🦣STONE AGE to IRON AGE 🦣
🤓 A National Curriculum history topic for Key Stage 2 is 'changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age'. It's also a favourite topic of ours!

The BooksForTopics Stone Age BOOKLIST is designed to support the topic: ➡️ https://t.co/SAiRoOil5V

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🏹 Rebel Heart is a NEW middle-grade adventure set during the English Civil War.

Author Ally Sherrick visits our blog today to tell us more about this fascinating period and about how the book explores the theme of 'sides' in the civil war... https://t.co/uESMnp9DfK

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🎩📚 VICTORIANS topic KS2 booklist: https://t.co/za7q9XaVfy

🚂 Known as an age of invention & industrial development as well as an era of poverty, child labour & crime, the Victorian period was a time of great contrasts.

Check out our list of Victorian-themed children's books.

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🌿🦜 RAINFOREST topic booklist: https://t.co/JkO0Cn1VVD

🦥 Make use of our KS2 curriculum booklist for geography! From canopies and capybaras to epiphytes and explorers, we’ve got it covered in our rainforest topic children's booklist.

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Looking for Romans topic books?
⚡Nil desperandum!⚡

Conquer the curriculum with the BooksForTopics Romans booklist for KS2. The list is regularly updated to aid the quest for the best recommended children's books about the Romans...

Here's the link: https://t.co/Uqk29qw8Fm

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🪓VIKINGS 🪓topic booklist: https://t.co/siuCrB4T7g

🗺️🐲🛖 From raiders and traders to myths and monsters, the Vikings topic offers a hoard of fascinating themes. We’ve put together this reading list of the best Viking-themed children’s books for KS2.

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🔎 Looking for topic books for an ANCIENT EGYPT topic?
We've unwrapped the best for KS2 - AND we've been able to add a set of exciting newer titles for this fascinating topic! 🥳

➡️ Recommended Ancient Egypt booklist: https://t.co/W7Jih9vV1o

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The Romans - rotten or revolutionary? Or both?
🤔It's a fascinating history topic and we've picked out some top recommendations of children's books about the ROMANS - see the full KS2 Romans history topic booklist here: https://t.co/XsidM1igur