The Interesting Bits - Couverture rigide

Pollard, Justin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719524202 ISBN 13 : 9780719524202

Editeur : John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2007

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Did you give school history lessons your undivided attention?

Even if you did, you're probably none the wiser as to how exactly Henry II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head or why Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a piano. Or where terms like bunkum, maverick, John Bull and taking the mickey come from; or how the Tsarina of Russia once saved a life with a comma; or why Robert Pate hit Queen Victoria on the head with a walking stick.

For some unknown reason the most interesting bits of history are kept out of lessons and away from syllabuses. Relegated to history's footnotes, they lie buried beneath the dense text like a few golden nuggets in a mountain of granite.

Now The Interesting Bits rights this wrong; it is a veritable treasure trove of those surprising, eccentric, chaotic, baffling asides that don't fit neatly into history's official narrative.

They are historys little-known treasures the gems that generations of teachers have excised from lessons on the grounds that they might make history too much like well fun.

Biographie de l'auteur

Justin Pollard read Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge. He is a historical writer/consultant in film and TV. His credits include Elizabeth and its sequel, A Golden Age, as well as over twenty-five documentary series such as Time Team for Channel Four. He is a researcher for QI and the author of the Seven Ages of Britain, The Rise and Fall of Alexandria and Alfred the Great.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0719524202
• ISBN 13: 9780719524202
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320