Secret English History Book

'Secret English History' - the greatest English history stories you have never heard of. 

History is only worthwhile if we can retell it in a way that is memorable. 

For far too long is has been much maligned in many people’s minds because of the way it is taught in school. For many people this means it was long on long dry, dull dates and short on short, sensational, shocking stories. Nothing inspired them, very little explained the world we live in now and with a de facto rigid outlook there was little critical thinking was required to understand the nuances of real history to get a better awareness of the present day.  

This is why I have taken the time to explore all the dark recesses of English History to discover all the juiciest, succulent adventures and scandals to whip up your senses and learn a whole bunch of stories I can guarantee you will have heard nowhere else. 

Believe me it has taken a lot of effort and it has been challenging but I have now saved you the effort of finding these great stories. Its high time people see history in all its glory and appreciate for all its uniqueness.

That’s what my 'Secret English History' book is all about. I want you to enjoy history as much as I do and why not after all English history has so much to offer and treat us with.

This book is different. You won’t see rote repetition of facts and figures, social trends, comprehensive examinations of famous events or long-winded biographies. Instead this book brings English history alive by taking an unashamed look at the untold, interesting and personal biographical stories that reveal the essence of the colourful characters and outlandish personalities that have frequently been overlooked in our country’s glorious past. 

See, hear and feel events by getting inside the minds of those people who witnessed and made history in their own words.  

Prepare to hear a different version of history with stories you have probably never heard of such as….

- How one brave Anglo-Saxon took on the might of William the Conqueror and can lay claim to being a possible inspiration for Robin Hood.

- The time when Winston Churchill angered a Suffragette so much that she attacked and almost killed him.

- A brave soldier who took on the Nazis during World War Two and was so famous for his daring raids that he inspired Ian Fleming and may well have been the man that James Bond was based on. 

- How one ingenious Scout took on overwhelming odds to stand up to the might of the Boer army during a long town siege. His story was the talk of the whole country and yet now no one knows it and yet everyone has heard of him today.

- One Prime Minister's daring escape from a prison of war camp. Who would have thought a future Prime Minister would risk his life to escape and would be shot at several times. Our whole country could so easily have been different if he had died.

- Politicians these days like to act as if they are so civilised and yet there was a time when Members of Parliament used to duel and remarkably two cabinet ministers once fought a sword duel at the break of dawn.

- the English Civil War you never heard of. Sure you know about the famous English Civil War in the 1940's but have you heard about the one much earlier with arguably the first Queen of England who incidentally had a terrible temper?

- When we think of assassinations of leaders we probably first think of John F. Kennedy or Abraham Lincoln but remarkably one of very own  Prime Ministers was murdered and in the House of Parliament no less. 

- Base gluttony and glorious feasting and debauchery are nothing new for King in history but one of our Kings took it all to another level and caused a huge scandal that rocked was well known to all the rulers of Europe in it's time.

- scandal is the bread and butter of tabloid papers these days but nothing they mention matches the time one of the leading men of his day tried to seduce a Queen of France. So shocking was this story that it went on to be turned into a semi-fictionalised adventure yarn now known across the world.

- many unbelievable stories of escapes from the Tower of London in the most outlandish manner conceivable but best of all the time a notorious villain stole the crown jewels from the most secure location in all of England.

- the time when one of Britain's greatest engineers faced near death and used his own ingenuity to escape life threatening catastrophe and engineer his own way out of disaster.

and these are only some of the great, short stories to be found. In fact there is much, much more contained in my book that can educate, inform and entertain you whilst learning more about key political figures. 

So go ahead and buy my book now. It can now be found and purchased at Amazon as a book or on Kindle with the link below

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-English-History-Raucous-escapades/dp/1072886669