English History: Strange but True

Overview

Hundreds of amusing and incredible facts and anecdotes from history, new in paperback

Under the Sumptuary Laws of 1363, merchants were forbidden to wear pointy shoes in excess of 6½in in length.One of Henry VII’s most prized possessions was the preserved leg of St George, a gift from Louis XII of France.In February 1789, George III pursued a best-selling lady novelist in a high-speed chase through Kew Gardens.This book contains hundreds of ‘strange but true’ facts and anecdotes about English history. Arranged into a miniature history of England, and with bizarre and hilarious true tales for every era, it will interest and delight readers everywhere.