History

READ

Historical fiction on the Stuarts (a Year 12 topic)

• Royal Rebels by Anita Seymour
• Book 1: The King’s Witch by Tracey Borman
• Book 2: The Devil’s Slave by Tracey Borman
• Book 3: The Fallen Angel by Tracey Boreman

Memoir/non fiction on South Africa

• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (very accessible, also on audible)
• Country of My Skull: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (demanding read but very powerful)
• Comin of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
• The English Civil War: A people’s history by Diane Purkiss.(vivid, character driven history book)
• Killers of the King by Charles Spencer (reads like a thriller)

Further your GCSE knowledge

• Henry VIII and the men who made him by Tracey Borman
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

General Historical fiction to widen interest

• The Eight by Joanna Miller

WATCH

• Invictus
• Cry Freedom (1987)
• To Kill a King (2003_
• Cromwell (1970) dated but useful
• Charles I: Downfall of a King (BBC three part documentary)
• Selma (2014)

LISTEN

The Rest is History podcast