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Unruly : a history of England's kings and queens / David Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, David, 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers.
- Great Britain.
- Queens--England.
- Queens.
- Royal houses--England.
- Royal houses.
- Royal houses--Great Britain.
- Monarchy--History.
- Monarchy.
- Courts and courtiers.
- Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Humor.
- Great Britain--History--1066-1687--Humor.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 430 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Michael Joseph, 2023.
- Summary:
- This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all names, dates or ungraspable historical headwinds, but instead show how it's really just a bunch of random stuff that happened with a few lucky bastards ending up on top. Some of these bastards were quite strange, but they were in charge, so we quite literally lived, and often still live, by their rules. It's a great story. And it's our story. If you want to know who we are in modern Britain, you need to read this book.
- Contents:
- Pre-Willy
- The Dukes of Hazard
- Here comes the reign again
- Everything's coming up roses.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles J. Stille Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781405953184
- 1405953187
- 9781405953177
- 1405953179
- OCLC:
- 1378711845
- Publisher Number:
- 99994764850
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