The interesting bits : The history you might have missed / Justin Pollard.

By:

Pollard, Justin [author]

Material type: Text

TextDescription: xx, 297 pages ; 20cmISBN:

9781848541009

Subject(s):

History

DDC classification:

902 POL

Summary: Did you give school history lessons your undivided attention? Even if you did, youre probably none the wiser as to how exactly Henry II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head or why Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a piano. Or where terms like bunkum, maverick, John Bull and taking the mickey come from; or how the Tsarina of Russia once saved a life with a comma; or why Robert Pate hit Queen Victoria on the head with a walking stick. For some unknown reason the

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Acquisition, Cataloguing, Classification and Distribution Development	902 POL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B232027

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Did you give school history lessons your undivided attention? Even if you did, youre probably none the wiser as to how exactly Henry II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head or why Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a piano. Or where terms like bunkum, maverick, John Bull and taking the mickey come from; or how the Tsarina of Russia once saved a life with a comma; or why Robert Pate hit Queen Victoria on the head with a walking stick. For some unknown reason the

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