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

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The answer was 'Rattus Rattus', a puppet narrator-come-historian who is effectively the rat embodiment of Jenner on screen. As historical consultant to the BAFTA award-winning CBBC comedy series Horrible Histories, Jenner ensured the factual accuracy of hundreds of side-splitting sketches. Greg Jenner (born 1982) is a British author and public historian with a particular interest in communicating history through pop culture and humour. After a trying time with his mental health, Jenner missed out on a double first as an undergrad, which meant that he had to take out a loan for his masters and left him unable to finance his PHD. The past allows us to work through our current fascinations and concerns and allows us the romance and the glamour and the beauty.

For a few years he continued working on documentaries and period dramas before happening to overhear Lion’s Chief Creative Officer saying they had the television rights to Terry Deary’s series of history books for children. Greg is both a passionate defender and careful critic of the way in which the past is exploited for entertainment. It was a day of piercing cold and as I walked through the twilight from the Sheldonian to Christ Church, the streets were empty and the whole city was shutting itself away. Whilst doing work experience on Days That Shook the World at Lion TV , however, Jenner felt he had found his answer in historical consultancy.This book has everything, or at least everything I use and wanted to learn about (the cat included). Dydy hanes ddim i’w gael mewn amgueddfeydd ffansi yn unig, ac nid yw’n gorfod bod am deuluoedd brenhinol hynafol, dyfeiswyr neu ffigyrau hanesyddol.

As historical consultant to the BAFTA award-winning CBBC comedy series Horrible Histories, Greg ensured the factual accuracy of hundreds of side-splitting sketches. If you phone up a historian and say, ‘tell me 10 stories that would be great movies', we can do that in 20 minutes. When not drawing, Jenny enjoys long walks in the shade with her ginger companion, "attempting" new and complicated recipes or watching her favourite animated movies. Over the course of only a couple of weeks, I read a few pages each night before bed and soon learned lots of new fun facts, some of which both impressed and surprised me! Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here.His Homeschool History radio series won him an army of new fans when it launched on BBC Radio 4 during the Covid pandemic. Through Richmond’s life you can see racial politics and the abolition of slavery, the war with America, the war with France, and poverty. You Are History: From The Alarm Clock To The Toilet, The Amazing History of the Things You Use Every Day by Greg Jenner | 9781406395679. 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.