Download and print our History Heroes activity sheets and games for fun at home, or play our quick online quizzes! Our history wordsearches, quizzes and timelines make great extra educational learning. When you discover a History Hero you don't know about, learn a bit more about them.
Quick Quiz - KINGS & QUEENS
Test your knowledge of Britains Kings and Queens with our quickfire quiz. Play Now!
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I was a ‘Great’ King of Wessex, who stopped invading Vikings. I may have burnt some cakes along the way!
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I was crowned King of England on Christmas Day, 1066 at Westminster Abbey, having won the Battle of Hastings
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I was the last Norman King of England. I am also the only King of England and the Union with my name…so far!
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I claimed my rebellious barons forced me to sign the Magna Carta, which took away any English monarch’s right to Absolute Power – drat!
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I was seen as a weak king but my reign lasted 56 years. I kept an elephant at the Tower of London and a polar bear, who fished in the Thames – so I had my cool side!
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I defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt. I lost 400 of my 6,000 men. The French lost 5,000 of their 30,000 men
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I broke with Rome and made myself head of the Church of England. I spent heavily on wars and built up the English navy…and I wasn’t necessarily the greatest husband to have
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I became Queen of England in 1558 when I was 25 years old. I never married. I said my country was my priority
Sir Walter Raleigh named Virginia in North America after me, ‘the Virgin Queen’
I was the first Stuart King of England. Guy Fawkes tried to blow me up in the Houses of Parliament in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot
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My rule of England, Scotland and Ireland was called the Interregnum – ‘between reigns’ – I was called Lord Protector: kind of a king and yet soooo not a king
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The first Hanoverian King to be born in England, I became the first King of the United Kingdom…but lost our American colonies in the American War of Independence
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I was the first reigning monarch to travel by train
I married my first cousin, Albert, in 1840. As Head of State I had to propose to him.
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I was the first Mexican artist to exhibit at the Louvre.
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Frida Kahlo studied science at school and planned to become a doctor. Badly injured in a bus crash, Kahlo started painting while she was recovering and unable to get out of bed. Frida Kahlo never recovered completely and she often painted images of her body in great pain. She is known for her self-portraits and for her portrayals of Mexican culture. She said of her self-portraits: “I paint self-portraits because…I am the person I know best”
My artwork has been turned into one of the most used emojis
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I turned down a knighthood in 1990, saying: “I don’t value prizes…I value friends”
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My 17-foot tall sculpture of David is seen as the Renaissance ideal of the perfect human figure
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I was born in Covent Garden. My father was a barber and I kept my cockney accent all my life
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I am a Japanese artist, known for using dots throughout my work and famous for my brightly coloured pumpkins
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Yayoi Kusama is the biggest-selling female artist in the world. She creates paintings, installations, performances and sculptures – they all have one thing in common: dots! She says, “‘Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos. Polka dots are a way to infinity. “
An Italian Renaissance painter, I painted ‘The Mona Lisa’. It took me four years to complete from 1503
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I said, “A line is a dot that went for a walk”. I developed my ‘magic square’ painting style, abstract patchworks of colour, in World War One
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I was a nineteenth century, female, American artist. Degas invited me to join the Impressionists in 1877
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My most famous image is of a huge wave, “Under the Wave off Kanagawa”. A Japanese artist, I am believed to have produced 30,000 artworks in my lifetime
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ARTISTS Quiz
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Take our quick quiz all about inventors and inventions. Play Now!
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Injured soldiers in the Crimean War called me ‘The Lady with the Lamp’
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My Germ Theory said that germs attack the body from outside it. I never shook hands with anyone because I was frightened of catching germs
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I invented and built my famous steam locomotive, ‘The Rocket’ with my son. It ran over and killed an MP on its first outing in 1930
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Lord Byron’s daughter, I was born in 1815 and have been called the first computer programmer.
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In 1762 I ordered some beef to be put between 2 slices of bread as a meal.
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We brothers invented and built the world’s first successful aeroplane in 1903
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I invented the world wide web in 1989 while working at CERN in Geneva
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In 1964 I invented Kevlar, an almost bulletproof fibre that has saved 1000s of lives
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I patented the invention of dynamite in 1867 and used my wealth to set up world prizes in science, medicine, literature and peace
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I patented portable refrigeration units in 1940 to transport food and blood during World War Two and made it possible to send food and medicine around the world
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An Ancient Greek scientist, I jumped out of my bath, shouting ‘Eureka’ at my scientific discovery
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In 1859 I published my book about my theory of evolution, ‘On the Origin of the Species’
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My X-ray photographs showed Crick and Watson the solution to DNA’s structure
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I discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic, in 1928 partly by accident
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I proved Copernicus’ theory that the Universe centred on the Sun and I discovered Saturn’s rings in 1610
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I was the first woman and, more importantly, the first PERSON to win two Nobel prizes in 1903 and 1911
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I was a brilliant mathematician, who supplied the Allies with vital information in World War Two by breaking the Germans’ Enigma code
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In 1862 I discovered bacteria could be destroyed by boiling the liquid containing it. I was so frightened of germs that I refused to shake hands with people
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My famous equation is E=mc2, the basis of nuclear fission
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In 1967 I discovered pulsars, a type of neutron star, by checking 3 1/2 miles of paper data
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History Heroes SCIENTISTS quiz
It’s back to basics for you…
…but you can have loads of fun, discovering amazing science facts with History Heroes SCIENTISTS card game
Discover the women of history who changed the world. Play Now!
In 2015 I became Britain’s longest serving monarch. I sent my mother a message of congratulations on her 100th birthday
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I ruled Egypt from 51 – 30 BCE. I was known for my beauty and intelligence
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I was the leader of the British suffragette movement, fighting for the vote for women at the beginning of the twentieth century
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I was an African American abolitionist, who helped over three hundred slaves in America escape to freedom. I was born Araminta Ross but changed my name when I married John Tubman in 1844
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I am one of England’s best loved writers. My first novel was ‘Sense and Sensibility’
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I have been described as the ‘Mother of the Civil Rights Movement’. I refused to give up my seat on a bus to a white person in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama
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I won 20 Wimbledon titles from 1961. I campaigned for equal pay for women in sport and was the first sportswoman to earn $100,000 prize money in one year
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I was the first woman in history to own and produce my own TV chat show. In 2003 I became the first African-American woman to become a billionaire
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I was Empress of Russia for thirty four years in the eighteenth century. I am one of the country’s ‘greatest’ rulers
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Born in England in 1759, I am seen as one of the first feminist philosophers. My book ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ called for educational reform and equality
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History Heroes WOMEN in History Quiz
It may be time…
…to brush up on your famous women in history facts. History Heroes WOMEN in History card game can help you there!
Explore the famous men and women who have explored the Universe. Play Now!
I ran a marathon in Space in 2016 and received an award from the Queen while I was up there
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In 1957 I was the first living creature to orbit the Earth in Sputnik 2
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I was a hugely influential science-fiction writer. I wrote ‘The Time Machine’ and ‘War of the Worlds’. I predicted the splitting of the Atom and Space travel
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I was part of a group of African-American, female mathematicians, who help send astronauts to the Moon
Please select 3 correct answers
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I was the first person to walk on the moon and on the 21st July 1969, I said “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”
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On the 4th October 1957 I became the first ever man-made satellite to be launched in Space
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In 2002 I founded my company, SpaceX, to develop and launch Space vehicles
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The Soviet Union sent me into Space in 1963, the first woman to have flown in Space
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A scientist, I identified the Andromeda Galaxy in 1923 – the first known galaxy apart from the Milky Way. NASA named its most powerful Space telescope after me in 1990
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I was the 35th US president, who launched the Space Race with the Soviet Union in 1961
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History Heroes SPACE quiz
Houston, we have a problem…
….easily fixed by playing and learning with History Heroes SPACE card game
Test your knowledge of the heroes and anti-heroes of World War 2. Play Now!
I was a thirteen year old German Jewish girl, who wrote a diary about my family’s life in World War Two
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I became British prime minister on 10th May 1940, the day Germany invaded France
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I was the British prime minister, who declared war on Germany on the 3rd September 1939 after Hitler invaded Poland
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I was the longest serving US president in history and was American president for almost all of World War Two
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Nearly three million of us British children were sent away by our parents to the safety of the countryside
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I was the leader of Nazi Germany and was responsible for the start of World War Two and the Holocaust
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By 1944 there were over 80,000 of us women, working on the land and in farming to increase food production during the war
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I was the Communist dictator and leader of the Soviet Union. I joined Churchill and Roosevelt as part of “The Big Three” Allies from 1942, working to defeat Nazi Germany
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I was a Swedish diplomat, who saved 10,000s of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis
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I was born in New Zealand and was the most decorated servicewoman of World War Two and the Gestapo’s most wanted person
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History Heroes World War Two Quiz
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We have so much to learn from history…never forget with History Heroes WORLD WAR TWO card game
History Heroes Treasure Hunt
A great, fun game to get the family hunting through the house and garden for some History Heroes - a bit of stealth learning while running around on a History Heroes treasure hunt.
History Heroes Dominoes
The classic game with a History Heroes twist. Print, cut out and play together.
Play History Heroes!
Once you've had fun with our free downloads, why not play History Heroes and learn more about the people, things and places that have shaped world history. With twelve different card games to choose from, there's topics and themes for all the family including our bestselling KINGS & QUEENS and INVENTORS packs. If you can't decide, then our History Heroes MEGA PACK contains all 12 game packs!
