by Yeath Sellar, R.J. Yeatman, Yeath Sellar
Funny, requires quite good knowledge of British history.
A short and amusing volume of all the English history you will ever need to remember, and a clever dig at how history used to be taught in schools. The more up you are on your English history, the more you will appreciate and enjoy it. Some of the one liners are very funny. I laughed out loud lot...
Having recently read extracts from Jane Austen's teenage satirical work The History of England, I thought it was time to re-visit this classic work, first published in 1930. Jane Austen's work on the same theme reminded me of how much I had enjoyed reading this book more than thirty years ago. It is...
Things this book doesn't explain about England.(1) Fishfingers in a white bread roll. Not so much that they exist as they pass for nutrition.(2) First class on trains being quite often cheaper than economy.(3) The help I get in the Underground with my bag. And yet my niece with her baby in a pram ge...
Along the lines of American humor columnist Dave Barry's Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United Statesor Jane Austen's The History of England,its flippant attitude and often satirical tone are amusing, but in the end both Barry and Austen created more amusing and substantial works.
a satirical look at English history as the average Briton would remember it. Very funny, especially if you have a good grasp on British history and will get the jokes. [Oct. 2009]
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