'I am not a historian. In fact, I wrote this poem in order to teach myself some history. I thought that sorting facts into verse form would concentrate my mind wonderfully. Which it did.' Brought up with the iambic pentameters of Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Verses ringing in his ears, James Muirden's rhyming history is a long poem in an equally simple and jolly form. Charmingly irreverent, magically humorous, delightfully illustrated by David Eccles - recently acclaimed for his line drawings for Now We Are Sixty - this is the perfect gift for historians and non-historians alike. This cheerful poem has been written: to tell the History of Britain; for people puzzled by the past - if this means you, here's help at last! From Celts to Churchill, it relates, (with all the most important dates) our country's convoluted course...It talks about: why Richard hollered for a horse; why Eleanor was such a catch; why no one liked the Spanish Match; the pros and cons of Laissez Faire; smart Georgian ladies' underwear; why Charles the Second went to plays; why Queen Jane reigned for just nine days; the causes of the Irish trouble; the bursting of the South Sea Bubble; that giant glasshouse in Hyde Park; and the First World War's igniting spark.
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Review:
Packed with fascinating facts, this is great fun. (Good Book Guide)
From the Publisher:
The author who picked up his pen
Goes by the name of James Muirden
He wrote Britain's history down in verse
To stop our memory getting worse
With pictures, wit and a lot of fun
There's something here for everyone
He even got the dates right too
(It's amazing what the man can do)
And so throughout our lovely land
We'll see the book in every hand
And the cry that you will hear go forth
From East to West and South to North
'A Rhyming History of Britain
Thank God it's finally been written!'
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- PublisherRobinson Publishing
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1845292774
- ISBN 13 9781845292775
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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