There Was a Roman in Your Garden

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Product details

  • ISBN 9780241662151
  • Weight: 186g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 199mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Jul 2025
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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It’s your LUCKY day! You’ve stumbled across an ancient treasure chest in your garden that was buried THOUSANDS of years ago by a child living in ancient Rome. And the chest is packed with 20 strange and curious items that tell us so much about their life, such as:


  • Armour made of REAL crocodile skin
  • Twinkling TREASURE said to protect its wearer from evil
  • A fun game made of a PIG'S KNUCKLE
  • Evidence of the world's first PIZZA!


Unpack the treasure chest and discover the objects that a child just like YOU was using thousands of years ago. You’ll uncover fascinating facts and true tales about their school, family life, clothes, games, favourite snacks and so much more.

The true, real-life experiences of children in ancient times is a part of history that has been neglected for far too long – award-winning historian, broadcaster and bestselling author Bettany Hughes is here to dig up this newly discovered information for young budding historians everywhere.

Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster, who has devoted the last 25 years to the vibrant communication of the past. Her speciality is ancient and mediaeval history and culture. A Scholar at Oxford University, she has taught at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and lectured at Cornell, Bristol, UCL, Maastricht, Utrecht, Manchester and Swansea. She is a Tutor for Cambridge University’s Institute of Continuing Education, a Research Fellow of King's College London and recently joined the New College of the Humanities as Professor of History. She has written and presented over 50 TV and radio documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, Netflix, Discovery, PBS, The History Channel, National Geographic, BBC World and ITV and is Co-Founder and Creative Director at Sandstone Global Productions. Her programmes have now been seen by over 250 million worldwide and include the hit Channel 4 TV series Treasures of the World. She has been honoured with numerous awards including Europe’s Cultural Heritage Prize and an OBE for services to history. Bettany is also an honorary, founding patron of Classics For All - a national campaign to get classical languages and the study of classical civilisations back into state schools. She was named as one of the BBC’s 100 Global Woman, was asked to launch the UK’s Inspiring Women mentoring scheme and in 2017 she was chosen as one of London’s 20 most influential cultural people by the Evening Standard in their 1000 awards. She sat on the Innovation Committee of NESTA and has been an advisor to the Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation. Bettany has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times and chaired the Man Booker panel. She judges for BAFTA, Queen’s Anniversary Prize and the Royal Television Society, amongst others.