discovery

The Marshall Cavendish "Discovery" partwork

A fortnightly series from the late 1980s, with many interactive and dynamic elements, aimed at bringing history to life for children.

We have most of these in good condition in their original wallets complete with models, maps, facsimiles etc - quite rare amongst the earliest and later issues

The number in brackets () after each title indicates availability.

Updated January 2012

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1: Elizabeth 1 / Armada

2 - Guy Fawkes/Gunpowder Plot

Scarce

 

 

3a- Columbus (0)

Rare to find it with globe unattempted

4 - Shakespeare/Theatre

5 - Joan of Arc/Siege of Orleans (1)

6 - Leonardo/Man of Genius (0)

7 - Henry V & Agincourt (2)

8 - Galileo & The Heavens (3)

9 - Cortes & The Aztecs (1)

10 - Richard III & Wars of the Roses (0)

11 - Michelangelo & the Sistine Ceiling (1)

12 - Henry VIII & the Church (1)

13 - Julius Caesar, Life & Times (0)

14 - William & The Norman Conquest (3)

15 - Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt (0)

16 - Richard the Lionheart (3)

17 - Marco Polo in the Orient (3)

18 - King Alfred & the Vikings (3)

19 - Alexander the Great (3)

20 - King John & Magna Carta (2)

21 - Hannibal, Crossing the Alps (3)

22 - Charlemagne's Empire (3)

23 - Tutankhamen & his Tomb (0)

24 - Minamoto Yoritomo & the Samurai (3)

25 - George Washington (3)

26 - James Watt, the Industrial Revolution (2)

27 - Mozart, Genius of Music (2)

28 - Captain Cook & his Voyages (0)

29 - Louis XIV & Versailles (3)

30 - Cromwell & the Civil War (1)

activity pack contains:-
  • stained glass window
  • diorama of a battle (Dunbar) with boardgame 'The Fugitive'
  • Royalist playing cards (need cutting out and applying to card backing)
  • Cromwell's letter on Valentine Walton's death (facsimile)
  • map of British Isles by Dutch cartographer Jan Jansson (facsimile)

31 - Nelson - Hero of Trafalgar (3)

32 - Bonnie Prince Charlie (2)

33 - Samuel Pepys & The Great Fire (1)

34 - Peter the Great/Russia (4)

35 - Isaac Newton/Scientific Genius (2)

36 - Marie Antoinette (3)

37 - Abraham Lincoln/Civil War (1)

38 - Vincent Van Gogh/Art Revolution (1)

39 - Queen Victoria (2)

40 - Louis Pasteur/White Knight of Science (1)

41 - William Cody/Wild West (0)

42 - Florence Nightingale (0)

43 - Napoleon Bonaparte/Waterloo (1)

44 - Charles Dickens/Social Reform (1)

45 - Ludwig van Beethoven (2)

46 - David Livingstone/Darkest Africa (2)

47 - Karl Marx/Dawn of Communism (1)

48 - Charles Darwin/Descent of Man (3)

49 - Robert Falcon Scott/Antarctic (2)

50 - Emmeline Pankhurst (1)

51 - The Wright Brothers (1)

52 - David Lloyd George/WW1 (2)

53 - Charlie Chaplin/Movies (1)

Scarce

54 - Lenin/Russian Revolution (1)

55 - Henry Ford/Craze for Cars (0)

56 - Albert Einstein/Atomic Age (1)

57 - Winston Churchill/WW2 (0)

58 - Mahatma Ghandi/Indian Independence (3)

59 - Neil Armstrong/Space Age (0)

Scarce

60 - Martin Luther King (1)

Scarce

Summer Special: The Dragon's Mirror tape

Rare

Christmas tape

rare

Christmas Special

pack only, no tape

Discovery - Collector Wallet

Discovery binder

to hold magazines, two needed for entire collection

Discovery magazines only

Available issues : 2,3 (2),4,5,6,7(2),8 (2), 9 (2),10 (2), 14,18,21,22,23,25,32,41,59
Please order quantity you require and leave message to say which issues you require.