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My Kind of History

My contributions to this blog aren't going to be nearly as socially useful as Chris's. But I hope they'll at least be amusing. For starters, let's look at my new fave-rave reading material.

I've always been a heavy reader of history, but every now and then it's nice to break out of the academic mould and kick back with a kid's book. Such as these amazing tabloid histories from Usborne. The link takes you to the book with my favourite front-page headline; to see all of the titles available go to this page and scroll down until you see "Newspaper Histories".

Here's another excellent use of the tabloid format, with particular relevance to yours truly (me roots are Viking). The content's pretty good, too. Taking into account the overall tone, these "tabloids" are a hell of a lot more accurate than your standard UK newspaper.