It was a day of piercing cold and as I walked through the twilight from the Sheldonian to Christ Church, the streets were empty and the whole city was shutting itself away. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.

I've listened to the audiobook version and Greg Jenner narrates it perfectly - his enthusiasm for history is contagious, and he uses humour all the way through. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin.From the alarm clock to the toilet, discover the incredible history all around you in this hilarious and fascinating book from popular historian and podcaster Greg Jenner. This story is set in the same world as Candy’s book Bone Talk, which focuses on Samkad’s story in the Philippines set just prior to this one and while it’s not necessary to read Bone Talk before reading Wild Song, it does add an extra dimension to the storytelling and is certainly wonderful partner read. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.

Find out the delightful, daft and downright deadly history of your everyday life that your teachers won't tell you about. Greg Jenner (born 1982) is a British author and public historian with a particular interest in communicating history through pop culture and humour. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Over the course of only a couple of weeks, I read a few pages each night before bed and soon learned lots of new fun facts, some of which both impressed and surprised me! The answer was 'Rattus Rattus', a puppet narrator-come-historian who is effectively the rat embodiment of Jenner on screen.He also points out that Chaucerian dialect doesn’t make punchlines hit quite as hard for children, whereas the sentry saying “alright, bro” will get a laugh. I highly recommend this book and I think it's a great way to introduce younger people to history and show them that not all history is boring! We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. She has been drawing stories since 1997, when she first discovered what pencils and paints could really do. Jenner has written for GQ magazine [5] and has appeared as a guest on Richard Herring's interview podcasts [6] and on the Art Detective podcast.

Jenner has accredited the success of Horrible Histories to a non-patronising approach to children’s television.For more of Greg Jenner, listen to his BBC Sounds podcast You’re Dead to Me, or check out his range of books for both kids and adults. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. Christ Church was silent except for the footfall of unseen persons around corners and the sounds of evensong creeping from behind closed doors.

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. The text is never boring and is written to the right level and in an easy to understand manner without belittling the reader. In truth, I was expecting the usual chat about how the light bulb came about rather than a comprehensive history lesson - the toilet was there too though, admittedly. Join Greg Jenner as he takes you on a trip through the amazing history hidden in the things you use every day. As historical consultant to the BAFTA award-winning CBBC comedy series Horrible Histories, Jenner ensured the factual accuracy of hundreds of side-splitting sketches.A Million Years In A Day: A Curious History of Daily Life, From The Stone Age To The Phone Age (2015) in which he described how routines and habits today had their genesis in the past as well as highlighting contrasts in every day routines through the ages. I came away buzzing and reassured that we still have in this century a wide ranging community fascinated not just by famous authors (I’ve rarely seen so many concentrated in one place) but by challenging ideas and questions. It’s like going to see Oppenheimer in the cinema and having an animatronic historian next to you going ‘he never met Einstein, that’s not true. Period dramas are often more about the time in which they're made than the time in which they're set.