Arran Lomas

Stick a Flag in It (eBook, ePUB)

1,000 years of bizarre history from Britain and beyond

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the Norman Invasion in 1066 to the eve of the First World War, Stick a Flag in It is a thousand-year jocular journey through the history of Britain and its global empire.

The British people have always been eccentric, occasionally ingenious and, sure, sometimes unhinged - from mad monarchs to mass-murdering lepers. Here, Arran Lomas shows us how they harnessed those traits to forge the British nation, and indeed the world, we know today.

Follow history's greatest adventurers from the swashbuckling waters of the Caribbean to the vast white wasteland of the Antarctic wilderness, like the British spy who infiltrated a top-secret Indian brothel and the priest who hid inside a wall but forgot to bring a packed lunch. At the very least you'll discover Henry VIII's favourite arse-wipe, whether the flying alchemist ever made it from Scotland to France, and the connection between Victorian coffee houses and dildos.

Forget what you were taught in school - this is history like you've never heard it before, full of captivating historical quirks that will make you laugh out loud and scratch your head in disbelief.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Unbound
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783529155
• Artikelnr.: 58722675

Autorenporträt

Arran Lomas is the man behind the hit YouTube channel Thoughty2, with over 2.6 million subscribers and 400 million views. Since 2012 he has created videos on every topic from space, crime and medicine to conspiracy theories, food and social issues - and, of course, history. He was raised in Lancashire - the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution - and has always been captivated by the world around him, driving him to uncover its history and secrets.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1066-1100 INVASION William Tramples a Cabbage
* 1100-1153 ANARCHY Matilda Does an Impression of a Marshmallow
* 1153-1189 BETRAYAL Henry II Fills a Castle With Prostitutes Then
Falls out With God
* 1189-1199 CRUSADE Richard the Lionheart Is Killed by a Frying Pan A
Doctor Drinks a Patient's Piss and Decides He's Going to Die
* 1199-1216 CHARTER John Loses the Crown Jewels in the Wash
* 1216-1272 REVOLT A Frenchman Calls the King 'Simple' A Pig and a
Locust Get into Serious Trouble With the Law
* 1272-1307 REPRESSION Edward I Tricks the Welsh
* 1307-1327 BUGGERY Edward II's Wife Sleeps With the Enemy A Man
Carries a Pineapple Around Town
* 1327-1422 CONQUEST English Peasants Kill Half of France in a Field
Transvestite Playboy John Rykener Has Sex With a Lot of Priests A
Floating Monarch Lies to an Angry Roof Tiler A Halfwit Commits a
Hemp-Based Heist Adam 'the Leper' Has Leprosy Basically, Everyone
Gets the Black Death and Dies
* 1422-1487 FEUD Henry VI Becomes England's Shittest King
* 1487-1509 MURDER Margaret Beaufort Is 'Single Mum of the Century'
* 1509-1547 SCHISM A Fat Man Fingers the King of France in a Field An
Alchemist Attempts to Fly. He Doesn't.
* 1547-1603 PERSECUTION A Priest Eats an Apple Inside a Wall Francis
Drake Shits Fire on the Spanish 1603-1688 WAR Charles II Escapes to
France via an Oak Tree A Man Sets His Beard on Fire and Robs the
Spanish
* 1688-1727 REVOLUTION James II Runs Away from a Dutchman With Fabulous
Hair A Woman Does Not Piss on the Great Fire of London Some
Yorkshiremen Crash the Economy from a Pub
* 1727-1760 EMPIRE A London Gentleman Orders a Latte and a Shag The
Bloody Code Gets Rather Bloody An American Colonist Eats His Own
Shoes
* 1760-1837 INDUSTRY A Bloke from Bolton Reinvents the Wheel and
Changes the World A Liverpudlian Dances in Front of a Train and Dies
Lord Byron Fucks His Way Around Europe Then Dies Queen Victoria
Doesn't Eat a Curry
* 1837-1914 LIBERTY A Victorian Man Sells His Wife for Some Gin People
Get Excited About Toilets at the Great Exhibition The British Invade
Ethiopia With a Train A Rake Dresses Like an Arab and Shags
Everything A Scotsman Wears Tweed, Fights a Lion Then Gets Lost
Shackleton Doesn't Eat a Biscuit at the Bottom