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Suzie Edge, Author
Luke Newell, Illustrator
Series: History Stinks!
Imprint: Wren & Rook
Publication date: April 10, 2025
Category: History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage)
ISBN: 9781526366528
What’s that smell? It’s HISTORY – and it STILL STINKS!
Did you know that ancient Romans used wee as mouthwash? GROSS! Or that snot was behind some of history’s greatest discoveries? HUH?
From French kings with boils on their bums to Victorians who liked to catch tears in special bottles, Wee, Snot and Slime Through Time features deadly battlefield diseases, disgusting dukes, beastly bacteria and slimy stories from the Egyptians to the Tudors and beyond.
Packed with fascinating facts, hilarious illustrations and the snottiest, wee-tastic tales from our pongy past, get ready to be dunked into the foulest corners of history.
Suzie Edge trained as a biologist before becoming a medical doctor, to spend more time talking to people, rather than just bugs in test tubes. She’s worked as a doctor in infectious diseases, haematology, and trauma and orthopaedic surgery. She has also completed a MLitt in Modern History to feed her fascination for the history of the human body and medicine.
She loves discovering the real historical stories of how we have treated our human bodies in life and in death. She has over 7.6 million likes and 380,000 followers on TikTok, who love tuning into her stories of gruesome and fascinating medical history.
She has been nominated for BookTok Author of the Year 2023.