For all you young history lovers, welcome to POE Juniors. Your key to the realm of kings and queens, knights and generals, artists and writers, all waiting to retrace their steps upon your imagination. Have a read and explore the oldest civilizations in the world, the lives, characters and conflicts which have shaped the modern world; meet the families who ruled nations and the individuals who fought against them; the events which stirred change and the quotes and speeches which still sound in the ever-turning wheel of fortune and desire.
Pyramids
Pyramids were stone structures built as burial tombs for Pharaohs and their families. The afterlife was important in Ancient...
Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon became known as one of history’s most successful military commanders and by the age of thirty...
Julius Caesar
Born Gaius Julius Caesar in July 100BC into a Patrician family. Following his father’s death, Caesar became head of...
Viking Warriors
All Viking warriors were feared by their enemy; right across Europe. The Berserkers (Norse warriors) described as...
Hundred Years War
The Hundred Years War was a series of conflicts fought between the rulers of the Kingdom of England ‘House of Plantagenet’...
Joan of ArcJoan
Joan was born around 1412 in Domremy, France to her father Jacques, a farmer and her mother Isabelle; she was one of five...
Young Henry Tudor:
He became King Henry VIII and is best remembered for his six wives (Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived);...
Merlini
There are many varying stories of Merlin; some have him as a child, others as a wild man, or maybe a bard, however in the...