GIVEAWAY Can you name all the kings and queens of England?

Can you name all the kings and queens of England?

Well I can do a good few,not in all the correct orders. History was my absolute fave in school when we covered British monarchy. I avidly read fiction and factual historic royal books.

I was absolutely gutted when at school the planned history of the Tudors changed in favour of modern history and the unfolding war in Afghanistan, when Russian tanks moved in.

My lipstill curls if its mentioned.

I love now visiting the houses where kings and queens lived and just visited.Henry the Eighth,came locally to Stamford to buy his silks, Catherine of Aragon is buried in our Cathedral and poor Anne Boleyn was taken to

I can wholeheartedly agree with the author of the Little Book Of Monarchs,who wrote this as a response to the falling standards of history teaching in schools. He feels that less and less time is devoted to the subject and that children are often offered only two or three significant periods to study. Tony believes school children are simply not getting a proper perspective, and hopes to address this by taking the reader chronologically through the ages.

What is highly appealing about the book are the bullet points that make it easy to gain key facts that are actually quite amusing, children will love the interesting way its set out and like me, the humour. Its a snapshot of our royals!

William the 2nd ...probably gay!
Henry the Third... Kept leopards in his zoo at the Tower of London
George the Fourth..Fat,dissolute, wildly extravagant and had numerous mistresses.

I am already starting to put them in order in my head and I don't really have to.

This is a great book, easy reading and highly entertaining.

I am giving my review copy away as my two are far too old for it.If you want a chance to win, enter via the Rafflecopter,you can just follow the blog and leave a comment,if you want more entries just follow the instructions.

Naming the kings and queens of England in order and knowing a bit about what they did during their reign should be something every child should know by the time they leave school. Sadly this is not the case and there has been a call for more chronological order in history education

So how do we remember them? Funny incidents and pictures definitely help. Here at last is the perfect aide memoire, whether you are a school child or a lover of pub quizzes 

‘The Little Book of Monarchs’ is probably the most concise English history book ever published. It swiftly sorts out all those Edwards, Henrys and Georges, all the major battles, rebellions and bizarre deaths across ten turbulent centuries.

The author Tony Boullemier has vividly summed up all 42 rulers of England since 1066 and condensed each reign into five key bullet points. Every ruler is illustrated by a clever cartoon that will stick in the memory.

For younger readers, aged 10 +, The Little Book of Monarchs will provide a chronological narrative order, giving a firm foundation for future history studies. For students and older readers, it will be an indispensable reference book a short and snappy aide memoire to our bloody and glorious past. For everyone, it is our history with a smile on its face!

Suzannah Lipscomb, TV historian and author says:

 “Take Tony Boullemier's pithy, precise and lively text, add Adrian Teal's delightful and amusing cartoons, and what do you get? A wonderfully accurate and fascinating little guide to English monarchs since 1066.

“It takes monumental discipline and expansive knowledge to fit each monarch into 90 words - but Tony Boullemier pulls it off with aplomb.”

David Baldwin, Medieval expert and author of Richard III, The Lost Prince and Elizabeth Woodville says:

“Original, educational and entertaining. All the history you thought you knew and some you didn’t.”

www.boullemierbooks.co.uk

TONY BOULLEMIER was born in Newcastle in 1945 and trained there as a journalist before joining the Daily Express in 1969. He started his own newspaper group in Northampton in 1975 and sold it to an international publisher in 1988.

Married with two children, Tony lives in Northamptonshire. This is his second book; he published Leonie and the Last Napoleon with Matador in 2010.

PUBLISHED 1st October 2013

£7.99

ISBN 9781783060856

Distributor: ´Orca Book Services. Tel: 01235 465521. Email: tradeorders@orcabookservices.co.uk

BIC subject category : HBJD1  British & Irish history

Hardback 120PP 203x127 mm Portrait


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