<p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Our island^s history is made up of stories and here are one hundred and one of the best from the very beginning right up to our own times. Some of them are little more than legend and have disappeared from the history books. Others that seem hard to believe are absolutely true. This collection does not claim to be an accurate chronicle of Britain^s past, but a more exciting and inspiring introduction to it is hard to imagine. Here you will find ghost stories, murder stories, love stories, and stories of war and rebellion. You will read about kings and queens, peasants and priests, outlaws, inventors, soldiers and smugglers, and the heroism of ordinary men and women. You will read how King Alfred burned the cakes, how Lady Godiva rode naked through the streets of Coventry, how Bonnie Prince Charlie dressed up as a woman to escape from his pursuers, how the peasants marched on London in the fourteenth century and the Jarrow miners in the twentieth, about the little boats that sailed to Dunkirk and an oil spill in the Shetlands. Written by a consummate storyteller and vividly illustrated on every page, this is a wonderful way to encounter the legendary characters and notable events of Great Britain^s colourful history.</p><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 2px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><b>About the Author</b></p><p class="p2" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Geraldine McCaughrean novels for children have won her the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children^s Fiction Award, the Whitbread Award and the Beefeater Award. She is well known for her classic retellings which include Stories from Shakespeare and Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow and a World of Other Stories.</p><p class="p2" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br></p><p class="p3" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Richard Brassey is the author and illustrator of The Story of Scotland (with Stewart Ross), Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, Greyfriars Bobby and Faster, Further, Higher, Deeper</p>