Being a huge fan of Horrible Histories, I was so excited when I saw this. I knew I had to read it. Terry Deary's writing style is fantastic, informative yet interesting, kids would love history if it was taught this way. There are many stories in this book that I had never heard of and had me doing some serious researching afterwards.
I really enjoyed this book, if you also enjoy reading abouy murder, torture, imprisonments and death with a bit of deadpan humour thrown in you will want to read this.

📚I was able to read an advanced copy of title thanks to NetGalley, Terry Deary and Random House UK, Transworld Publishers | Bantam📚
📚All reviews and opinions are entirely my own📚

Maybe children would enjoy history lessons a bit more if it was taught like this. It was really quite good fun, and amusing, yet informative and captivating.

Terry has chosen people and events that I hadn't heard of. Some I had, but a lot were new and fascinating and led me down some Google black holes.

I know Terry is mainly known or his kids books, but I wouldn't recommend this for children. By all means teach them about these historical events but not in the honest deadpan way that Terry has.

Some of it I found more interesting than other bits, but I find that's normally the way with non-fiction books.

At just over 250 pages, it should have been quite a quick read, but it felt quite long and I don't know why. I enjoyed it, thought it witty and well researched and written, and it didn't feel like a slog, but the page count seemed to creep up slowly.

I mean, it's not the happiest or jolliest of books, regardless of the humour used. There's a lot of death and murder and torture and poverty and imprisonments and whatnot.

It wasn't quite what I thought. I assumed it would be about 'revolting' historical people, but it's about the historical people who 'revolt'.

This was another deeply informative, humorous and brilliant read from Terry Deary. I really enjoyed the scope of examples used to explore the history of revolutions across the globe and the structure of the book - with chapters divided in focused between various reasons for revolt and what we can learn from last revolutions. I feel like I learnt a lot from this book and I thoroughly enjoyed the reading experience. All in all, I'd highly recommend this to anyone even remotely interested in revolution or history.

I’ll always have praise for Terry Deary and how he writes history. It’s always with a flair for humour whilst being both informative and entertaining. I find these books effortless to read and again, I really enjoyed this one as I thought I would!

History is littered with rebellions, mutinies, revolts and uprising and this is the book that brings them altogether with style.

I always looked forward to reading a few chapters of this and I also learnt plenty. I found I knew alarmingly little about this pocket of history and I thoroughly enjoyed learning more about it.

Petition for Terry to write books forever. Thank you :)!