English History: Strange but True by Richard Smyth

Low stock: 3 left

198mm x 129mm x 15mm

Pages: 192

Under the Sumptuary Laws of 1363, merchants were forbidden to wear pointy shoes in excess of 6-in 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.