The Rest is History Returns
An A-Z of Historical Curiosities
1st Edition
Published on 19. September 2024
448 pages
978-1-5266-6866-0 (ISBN)
Description
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'The world's most successful history podcast . . . Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The Times
From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns!
This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on some of history's best and most bizarre moments. Charge forth against the traitors of the American Revolution, journey through Baghdad to discover the origins of the Arabian Nights and head to Sicily to witness the first face-off between Carthage and Rome.
Along the way you'll find the answers to questions like:
- Who was Jesus's wife?
- What would it have been like to live-tweet through the eruption of Vesuvius?
- Why did the Romans inspire so much American science fiction?
- Which Mitford sister tried to seduce her girlish crush, Adolf Hitler?
- Who are history's top 10 monkeys?
- Was Henry V's great-grandfather, Edward III, the biggest 'lad' in British history?
But that's not all - this book also includes puzzles and a pub quiz. So dust off your tricorne hat, grab your lasso and get ready for a rollicking rollercoaster through the past . . .
'The world's most successful history podcast . . . Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The Times
From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns!
This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on some of history's best and most bizarre moments. Charge forth against the traitors of the American Revolution, journey through Baghdad to discover the origins of the Arabian Nights and head to Sicily to witness the first face-off between Carthage and Rome.
Along the way you'll find the answers to questions like:
- Who was Jesus's wife?
- What would it have been like to live-tweet through the eruption of Vesuvius?
- Why did the Romans inspire so much American science fiction?
- Which Mitford sister tried to seduce her girlish crush, Adolf Hitler?
- Who are history's top 10 monkeys?
- Was Henry V's great-grandfather, Edward III, the biggest 'lad' in British history?
But that's not all - this book also includes puzzles and a pub quiz. So dust off your tricorne hat, grab your lasso and get ready for a rollicking rollercoaster through the past . . .
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
22,35 MB
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978-1-5266-6866-0 (9781526668660)
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An A-Z of Historical Curiosities
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Persons
Tom Holland is the author of a range of books on ancient and early medieval history. He has translated Herodotus and Suetonius, presented TV documentaries on subjects ranging from dinosaurs to the Islamic State, and been described by The Times as 'a leading English cricketer'.
Dominic Sandbrook was educated at Oxford, St Andrews and Cambridge, and was an academic at Sheffield before becoming a writer. He is best known for his histories of Britain since the 1950s, most recently Who Dares Wins, as well as a series of history books for younger readers, Adventures in Time. He has presented many documentaries on BBC Two and Radio 4, and is a columnist for The Times and book critic for the Sunday Times.
Dominic Sandbrook was educated at Oxford, St Andrews and Cambridge, and was an academic at Sheffield before becoming a writer. He is best known for his histories of Britain since the 1950s, most recently Who Dares Wins, as well as a series of history books for younger readers, Adventures in Time. He has presented many documentaries on BBC Two and Radio 4, and is a columnist for The Times and book critic for the Sunday Times.
Content
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Anglo-American Rivalry: The Special(ish) Relationship: 200 Years of Atlantic Antagonism
- Aztecs: The Final Confession of Hernán Cortés, Conqueror of the Aztecs
- Baghdad's Origin Story: The Arabian Heights
- Bride of Christ: The Fourteenth-Century Italian Who Married the Messiah
- Carthage: Roman Rumble in the Sicilian Jungle
- Chaucer: In Conversation with the Man of the Fourteenth-century Moment
- Colosseum Beyond Ridley and Russell: What the Amphitheatre Actually Meant to the Romans
- Declaration of Interdependence: George III Responds to Jefferson and Chums
- Downton Abbey: A History of Domestic Service in Five Job Adverts
- Exam: The Rest is History's Exam. on the History of Exams
- Fashion Groovy Babies: What 1960s Fashion Tells Us About Post-War Britain
- Freemasons: Six Ways Freemasons Have Shaped the Modern World
- Great British Quaker Off: The History of Chocolate in Six Recipes
- The Hundred Years' War: Was Edward III the Biggest 'Lad' in English History?
- Iron Mask: Who Was the Man in the Iron Mask?
- Indiana Jones: The History Behind the Raiders of the Lost Ark
- JFK: Top 10 Theories for the President's Assassination Analysed
- Martin Luther King Jr: The Biblical Book of Martin the Baptist
- Library of Alexandria: Who Destroyed the Greatest Library in the World?
- Historical Love Island: This Year's Winners
- Love Island Personality Test
- Mitfords: The Family's Christmas Round-Robin Letters from the 1930s
- Monkeys: Top Ten Monkeys in History
- Napoleon: What sort of man was the young Napoleon?
- New York City: Welcome to The Jungle: a Tourist Board leaflet from 1978
- Oppenheimer: The FBI's Oppenheimer Files
- Paris in 1968: The Students are Revolting
- Patagonia: Land of Their Fathers: The Welsh in Patagonia
- Pregnant Pope: The Female Pope Who Was Stoned to Death
- Quick-fire Quiz
- Romans and Sci-Fi: Why Have the Romans Inspired So Much American Science Fiction?
- Saigon: Apocalypse Then: Our Man in Saigon in 1975
- Schools: 'Requires Improvement': Inspecting the First 500 Years of British Public Schools
- King Solomon's Mines: What Does a Bestselling Novel From 1885 Tell Us About the Victorians?
- The Tichborne Claimant: A Real Victorian Potboiler
- Uprisings: Was the 'Peasants' Revolt' Actually a Peasants' Revolt?
- Vesuvius: #Pompeii: How the First-Century Natural Disaster Unfolded in Real Time
- Wilde: The Importance of Being Oscar Wilde
- Witches: Why Were There Witch-Hunts in New England in the Seventeenth Century?
- X-Rated Novelist: On the Psychiatrist's Couch with the Marquis de Sade
- Yuletide: Was Christmas Regifted by the Romans?
- Year Zero: Was 1974 the Worst Year in Post-war British History?
- The Great Puzzle Section
- Acknowledgements
- Index
