Reading Week 7

   Horrible History England

            Terry Derry Martin Brown

One thing that this book talks about is Revolting 1381 facts. One group of peasants set a London house on fire and came across some barrels...

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Reading Week 6

     Horrible History England

            Terry Derry Martin Brown

At one point in the book it talks about how in Colne Bridge in West Yorkshire there was a weaving mill. In 1818 the girls who worked there were ‘trouble’ The owner decided to keep them under control. How? He let them in for work, then bolted the doors. They couldn't get out till they had done their day's work. Sadly that was the day the mill caught fire seventeen girls died. The youngest was just nine years old.

Reading Week 5

      Horrible History England

            Terry Derry Martin Brown

One part of this book talks about how back in 1742 about 5 million English people were drinking 20 gallons of gin every year. In the 1870s a Russian visitor was shocked by what he saw in an English pub... Everyone is drunk but unhappy and gloomy and strangely silent. Only swearing and the odd bloody fight breaks the silence. Everyone is in a hurry to drink till they are senseless. The wives drink as much as the husbands and they all got drunk together while children crawl and run about among them.