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An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge)
by: John O'Farrell

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780552773966
ISBN: 0552773964
Label: Black Swan
Manufacturer: Black Swan
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: May 05, 2008
Publisher: Black Swan
Studio: Black Swan
Sales Rank: 53

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- Save money and re-read 1066 and all that
You have a spare summer and fancy writing a book but can't be bothered with all that creative muse malarky. It's a bit too soon for the autobiography( still working on doing the X-factor and the Big Brother application and frankly not so hot on the sports front) so what do you do? Well you pop along to the local reference library and sort out a stack of What the Roman's did for us, Great Kings and Queens of England, Prime Minsters I have known, and write a comic History of Britain for History refusniks. This is what John O'Farrell attempts to do in An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge). As you failed English know ( for Americans and other ex colonial types, local joke so ignore) when we mention ... Read More:

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- 1066 and All That Rides Again (with one big difference)
"1066 and All That" was the title of a spoof history text written in the 1930s that was less than accurate, to put it mildly, but which remained in print due to its humour for over 50 years.

John O'Farrell does write with accuracy as to the facts, but he is never less than entertaining, and frequently hilarious as to his very personal interpretations of them. This is a book that you can dip into, and almost any page will bring up a fact of which you were almost certainly previously unaware. (Want to know which English King possibly became an Italian monk? This will tell you.)

If you wanted a book to support and stimulate an older teenager's interest in history, this would be the one, but you may wish to keep it for yourself. ... Read More:

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- Fun and not too challenging
I was a bit suprised to read the negative reviews, I found this book to be fairly impartial - obviously John O'Farrell does have opinions but they are at least written with a sense of humour!
What you get as a reader is enough infomation to appear fairly knowledgable (with a bit of bluff if you happen to be caught with a history bore!) about almost any period up until 1945, certainly enough interesting facts to oohh and err at, enough to get you through a fundraising type quiz and enough of an opener to get you searching for more facts if that particular period strikes you as interesting.
I found myself loving every minute of it up until WW1 when I glazed over, just as I did at school, politics rather than people - but no, John O' Farrell ... Read More:

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- Laugh out loud
There are so few books that make me laugh out loud - but this is definitely top of the list. Not only is it hilarious - the flippant and often sarcatic asides are brilliant - but it actually makes you learn something about history. As a bit of a history buff myself (very amateur) there is so much I don't know and this is such a fun way to learn more. I can't recommend it highly enough. John O'Farrell for PM I say.

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- Another example of where we are going wrong! Teachers will love this!
Im not going to spend too much time on this. This is another book that I am sure will go a long way to helping undermine what it means to be English (or British - however you wish you to look at it, but its the English that get the majority of the bashing as per usual)

If you are a parent and want to teach your kids the history of our once great nation, please avoid books like this. Its no wonder no one cares about this country anymore - read this if you want to raise ungrateful, uncultured and confused kids. Does no one else find it dangerous to fill everyone, especially our youth with this "hate who we were" propagandist, left-wing dogma?

Ok, so its funny. I even laughed myself. But as someone who has spent 26 years studying the ... Read More:

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