Everything You Know About England is Wrong
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Everything You Know About England is Wrong

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Everything You Know About England is Wrong

About this book

A highly entertaining read for anyone interested in English history and culture, this great myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through history and the national character. Think we're the land of Punch and Judy and Morris Dancing? Think again as both traditions started in southern Europe. Love Winston Churchill's wartime speeches? Well, they were recorded by an actor.Packed with details on real English history, the book 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. English arts, entertainment, food, drink, kings and queens, traditions as well as politics are all covered to give you a fascinating insight into the true England.Includes an additional chapter on Scottish, Welsh and Irish myths that we've been peddling in England for decades and need to be laid to rest.

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Information

Publisher
Batsford
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781849945233
eBook ISBN
9781849946001

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. This green and pleasant land
  6. Around the counties
  7. The machinery of state
  8. English tradition and character
  9. England’s glorious fauna and flora
  10. Historical bloopers
  11. The great misunderstood characters of England
  12. And the rest of the kingdom
  13. Are you pronouncing it wrong?
  14. Other myths and misnomers
  15. Let’s start a new wave of false facts
  16. Index
  17. Acknowledgements
  18. Other titles in the series
  19. Copyright