This volume enables young readers to experience great events in history through the eyes of real children who lived through them. The book is geared to the way children learn about historical subjects through studying original material, such as diaries, documents and other primary and secondary evidence. It aims to allow children of today to relate to the events in the lives of real children of the past. Each fully-illustrated spread includes additional information about each event, the circumstances which led up to it and its importance. Readers can: participate in the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution; see what it was like for a child in Ancient Egypt during the building of the pyramids; join a medieval pilgrimage; and discover how the recent elections in South Africa affected the children living there.