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Keep your royals alive and your rivals beheaded in this historical card game.

Off With Your Head!

A Game of Cards, Courts and Sudden Death

$23.40

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    66 pages

  • Release Date

    8 September 2026

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Summary

A card game that takes place within the tumultuous world of history’s royal courts, where fortune can be lost as quickly as it is won. Try to keep your head!

In this 2-5 player game, you are a powerful noble, defending your royals and trying to behead those of your opponents. Choose your royal family: the Tudors, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’s, the Borgias, Ferdinand II of Aragon’s, or the Habsburgs. On each turn, all players reveal a Royal Status card to score points for one of the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780500421239
ISBN-10:0500421234
Author:Catherine Fletcher, Eleni Kalorkoti, Ivan Alexiev
Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format:Cards
Number of Pages:66
Release Date:8 September 2026
Weight:290g
Dimensions:98mm x 135mm
Audience Age:7-10
Off With Your Head! by Catherine Fletcher - ISBN: 9780500421239
98 × 135 mm
A-Format
B-Format
C-Format
A4
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About The Author

Catherine Fletcher

Eleni Kalorkoti is an illustrator living and working in Edinburgh. Her clients include Google, The New Yorker, The New York Times, MSNBC, Hyundai, The Economist, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, the Guardian, TED, The Victoria & Albert Museum, McSweeney’s and Buzzfeed.

Catherine Fletcher is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University. She’s the author of several books on Renaissance history, including The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance, and a regular contributor to radio and podcasts including You’re Dead To Me, Not Just the Tudors and History Extra.

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