Binding: PaperbackDate Published: 03 May 2026Horrible Histories finally turns its attention to the most popular sport on Earth, football. Read all about football's beginnings in the Middle Ages, which involved no rules, except maybe not intentionally killing the other side, all the way to the First World War and its famous Christmas Day match, plus awful injuries, silly supporters and not forgetting women in the sport. Publishing
Binding: HardbackDate Published: 16 Apr 2026On 18 April 1926 the first census of an independent Irish state was undertaken. Across the 26 counties over 700,000 census forms were completed by, or on behalf of, the 2,971,992 people living in the Irish Free State. But what can we know of the lives that they led?A century later, with the release of the 1926 census by the National Archives on 18 April 2026, those forms come alive again – revealing a nation in tr