Want a laugh and become super intelligent at the same time? Well here's the book for you.
This blog really isn't a blog as such, it's more of an advert for a funny little book my husband surprised me with on our
holiday last year. It's really for children and is intended to ignite a passion for history. Now if I'd been given it as a young
child I may, no, would, have started loving history even earlier and may have been at this very moment a lecturer of
Medieval History at Cambridge (some hope)
The Medieval Messenger is a thirty-two-page book designed in the style of a tabloid newspaper and covers major events
that took place during the medieval period. It covers these events in form of news articles, features, adverts, spot the difference, personal adds all the things you would expect.
This blog really isn't a blog as such, it's more of an advert for a funny little book my husband surprised me with on our
holiday last year. It's really for children and is intended to ignite a passion for history. Now if I'd been given it as a young
child I may, no, would, have started loving history even earlier and may have been at this very moment a lecturer of
Medieval History at Cambridge (some hope)
The Medieval Messenger is a thirty-two-page book designed in the style of a tabloid newspaper and covers major events
that took place during the medieval period. It covers these events in form of news articles, features, adverts, spot the difference, personal adds all the things you would expect.
As you can see the front page covers the arrival of the Black Death and goes on to talk about it in depth on page thirteen,
and on page twenty-two it runs a story "What's new in the Spanish Inquisition" We met the man who knows.
Effigies of the Great, on page 6, invite you to pick your choice of prominent people, from popes, kings, famous warriors
(no Visigoth's, Vandals or Barbarians) and have them carved in stone to impress your visitors.
My favourite however is:
No War Is Complete Without ELKHORN'S SAFETY VISORS.
How many times have you had your nose chopped off and thought "I wish I'd had one of those"
Don't take my word for it, it's great for kids, a quick read for an adult and is dead funny.
Published by Usboure, at £5.99 ISBN 978-0-7460-6898-4
2016 Update: You can get it new on Amazon for £2.63 or used for £0.01p
and on page twenty-two it runs a story "What's new in the Spanish Inquisition" We met the man who knows.
Effigies of the Great, on page 6, invite you to pick your choice of prominent people, from popes, kings, famous warriors
(no Visigoth's, Vandals or Barbarians) and have them carved in stone to impress your visitors.
My favourite however is:
No War Is Complete Without ELKHORN'S SAFETY VISORS.
How many times have you had your nose chopped off and thought "I wish I'd had one of those"
Don't take my word for it, it's great for kids, a quick read for an adult and is dead funny.
Published by Usboure, at £5.99 ISBN 978-0-7460-6898-4
2016 Update: You can get it new on Amazon for £2.63 or used for £0.01p
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