About this ebook
Here is a History teacher’s tribute to error – the error which defies correction, the error which has a logic of its own, the error which often deserves to be right far more than the truth does.
WHICH PORT IN SPAIN DID THE ARMADA SAIL FROM?
EL CID
WHAT WAS A TOGA?
A RAPE-AROUND ROBE
WHAT DOES THE NAME ‘CHRIST’ MEAN?
SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG
WHY WAS ENGLAND DULL UNDER CROMWELL?
HE CLOSED THE CINEMAS
WHERE WAS HITLER BORN?
BURNHAM THORPE, NORFOLK
WHAT DID MEN USE TO BUILD THE PREHISTORIC HUTS ON DARTMOOR?
THEIR HANDS.
About the author
Berwick Coates was educated at Kingston Grammar School and Christs College, Cambridge. Since then he has been, at various times, an Army officer, writer, artist, lecturer, careers adviser, games coach, and teacher of History, English, Latin, General Studies, and Swahili. He is the author of nine works of non-fiction, and lives in the West country where he works as a school archivist.
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