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3 Dec 2019
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.
Get it FREE here: ks2history.com/cave-art
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19 Nov 2025
Need books that bring Ancient Greece (KS2) to life? 🏛️
Our revised, curated booklist is ready for your topic planning.
Get the free list here: booksfortopics.com/booklists…
#AncientGreece #PrimaryTeachers
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23 Sep 2025
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:
➡️➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists…
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9 Sep 2025
🔎 Looking for topic books for an ANCIENT EGYPT topic? We've unwrapped the best for KS2!
Egypt booklist: ➡️➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists…
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9 Jul 2025
🎩📚 VICTORIANS topic booklist:
➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists…
🚂 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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10 Jun 2025
⚡️Romans Topic Booklist booksfortopics.com/booklists…
Check out our Romans booklist for KS2, featuring top recommended children's books about the Romans...
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6 Jun 2025
We love learning about the Stone Age to Iron Age history topic!
Here's our recommended booklist: booksfortopics.com/booklists…
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28 May 2025
🎩📚 VICTORIANS topic KS2 booklist:
➡️➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists…
🚂 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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23 May 2025
⚡️Romans Topic Booklist ⚡️
➡️➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists…
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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9 May 2025
👋 Delighted to welcome @J_C_Pearson to our blog, whose new book Shrapnel Boys is out now: booksfortopics.com/jenny-pea…
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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2 May 2025
🇬🇧🫖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: ➡️➡️ booksfortopics.com/ve-day-ch…
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29 Apr 2025
🪓 VIKINGS 🪓 topic booklist: booksfortopics.com/booklists…
🐲🛖🗺️ 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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21 Apr 2025
⛏️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: booksfortopics.com/booklists…
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9 Apr 2025
🦣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: ➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists…
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8 Apr 2025
🏹 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... booksfortopics.com/ally-sher…
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27 Mar 2025
🎩📚 VICTORIANS topic KS2 booklist: booksfortopics.com/booklists…
🚂 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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25 Mar 2025
🌿🦜 RAINFOREST topic booklist: booksfortopics.com/booklists…
🦥 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.
#kS2teacher #teachingideas 🌳📚🌍
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19 Mar 2025
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: booksfortopics.com/booklists…
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12 Mar 2025
🪓VIKINGS 🪓topic booklist: booksfortopics.com/booklists…
🗺️🐲🛖 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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27 Feb 2025
🔎 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: booksfortopics.com/booklists…
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24 Feb 2025
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: booksfortopics.com/booklists…
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