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''Since when was History True?'' is the heading of the first chapter and it's one which you need to read ''before'' you buy this beautiful book, because it would be easy to assume from the title and the pictures on the cover that it's a history ''text'' book you're going to invest in. In ''some'' ways you are but what you are actually acquiring is a ''story'' book. This is a book of the great stories of British history. Some of them are (broadly) true, some have been debunked by historians and some have simply fallen into disuse – but Geraldine McCaughrean would hate to see them lost altogether.
Where the story (or common retellings of it, such as the story of King Canute) and the truth are not closely related there's a panel to the side of the story giving the facts. Te The story of Lady Godiva's naked ride through Coventry was first written down some two centuries after it supposedly happened and the character of Tom Henny – Peeping Tom – was added even later, but was is true is that Lady Godiva was the generous benefactor suggested by the story.
There's an excellent index (and I ''love'' to see children introduced as early as possible to the joys of a good index) and every story is brought brilliantly to life by the illustrations of [[:Category:Richard Brassey|Richard Brassey]]. They're quirky, they're colourful, they're fun and they're relevant and it can have been no small task to illustrate a book which ranges from Gogmagog and the Exiles of Troy (about 1100 BC) through to the story of the twenty-first century's Hadron Collider.
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