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Everything You Know About England is Wrong - Hardcover

Brown, Matt

 
9781849945233: Everything You Know About England is Wrong
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1849945233 ISBN 13: 9781849945233
Verlag: Batsford Books, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in English history. A great myth-busting book that takes you on a great ride through history and a national character. Think we're the land of Punch and Judy and Morris Dancing? Think again as both traditions started in Italy. Love Winston Churchill's wartime speeches? Well, they were spoken by an actor for the radio. Packed with details on real English history, it explodes a range of national myths from bluebirds in Dover (they are not indigenous European birds) to the origin of the Cornish pasty (they might have been invented in London), from our stiff upper lip (an Americanism) to where you can spend a Scottish bank note.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Matt Brown is author of 11 books for Batsford, including eight titles in the popular Everything You Know... series of mythbusting books. He has served as editor and editor-at-large of Londonist.com for many years, writing on topics as diverse as street art, politics, map-making and science. With a deep love of trivia, he's written and hosted hundreds of quizzes, including events for the Museum of London, London Eye, Royal Institution, Royal Society and Manchester Science Museum, among many others. All of his books use humour and playfulness as tools to explore the world. He is tweeting at @mattfromlondon.

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Verlag
Batsford Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1849945233
ISBN 13 
9781849945233
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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