You Are History: From the Alarm Clock to the Toilet, the Amazing History of the Things You Use Every Day

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You Are History: From The Alarm Clock To The Toilet, The Amazing History of the Things You Use Every Day by Greg Jenner | 9781406395679. For the history-avoidant, this book does a brilliant job of making history less serious, less boring, and very applicable to everyday life. Discover some delightful, daft and downright deadly facts with historian and podcaster Greg Jenner ( You Are History) as he shares the fascinating history behind ordinary objects.

Working alongside the writing team at the inception of Horrible Histories, Jenner had a lot of problems to solve. Bursting with humorous illustrations and entertaining true stories, this is history - but not as you know it! Jenner featured as an expert on the BBC2 television programme Inside Versailles, [13] as well as for the Independent newspaper, discussing historical accuracy in television programmes.Find out the delightful, daft and downright deadly history of your everyday life that your teachers won’t tell you about. The Oxford Literary Festival was a special opportunity for me and certainly one of the highlights of my career – it was an honour I will never forget. Similarly, scholars of the Restoration Period and Hampton Court staff probably didn't expect to see Mathew Baynton as King Charles II "pimp walking" down the table of the Great Hall, surrounded by uninsurable tapestries, as he did when the crew became the first to ever be given the privilege of filming there.

He didn’t set out to teach millions of children that Incans used urine as shampoo, or that Pythagoras died whilst evading a field of beans. If you phone up a historian and say, ‘tell me 10 stories that would be great movies', we can do that in 20 minutes. You are History is a fascinating children's non-fiction book that covers a lot of subjects mainly which children use, are part of or know of.Another question to answer was who would fill the spare roles of the many corpses and “blinking idiots” required for the background of sketches. It’s like going to see Oppenheimer in the cinema and having an animatronic historian next to you going ‘he never met Einstein, that’s not true. I fear my inner nerd is on the loose, but this book was so excellent - I absolutely loved learning about the history of (pretty boring and bog standard) household objects (including cats!