How Britain got lucky with its choice of enemies – with Horrible Histories creator Terry Deary
Episode Ep 1566 27 min 10s

How Britain got lucky with its choice of enemies – with Horrible Histories creator Terry Deary

Forget the storybook version of British history. Churchill without Hitler would be a forgotten windbag with a record of failure. Elizabeth I and Francis Drake didn’t defeat the Spanish – bad luck and bad weather sank the Armada. And Boudicca would be remembered as a sadistic tyrant if not for the Romans. Creator of the multi-million-selling kids’ series Horrible Histories Terry Deary brings his irreverent, fact-packed style to adult readers with A History of Britain in Ten Enemies. He tells Andrew Harrison why history isn’t what it used to be.


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