Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain

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T̀he people who built Stonehenge must have had an advanced social structure.In addition to large numbers of labourers or slaves they would have needed managers, engineers, surveyors and designers. Basically they must have had a middle class. Quite how Stonehenge managed to get planning permission with all those objections from the Friends of Salisbury Plain is another one of its ancient mysteries.' Many of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at school. Back then T̀he Origins of the Industrial Revolution' somehow seemed less compelling than the chance to test the bold claim on Timothy Johnson's S̀hatterproof' ruler. But here at last is a chance to have a good laugh and learn all that stuff you feel you really ought to know by now. In this H̀orrible History for Grown-Ups' you can read how Anglo-Saxon liberals struggled to be positive about immigration: L̀ook, I think we have to try and respect the religious customs of our new Viking friends - oi, he's nicked my bloody ox!' Discover how England's peculiar class system was established by some snobby French nobles whose posh descendants still have wine cellars and second homes in the Dordogne today.

Genre: History / Europe / Great Britain / General (fancy, right?)