GREAT BRITAIN: Amazing and Extraordinary Facts

Was the Méthode Champenoise really invented by a Gloucestershire country doctor whose main interest was in making glass bottles strong enough to contain sparkling wine? Was the kilt really invented by an English Quaker for the convenience of his Scottish charcoal burners? Why did Oliver Williams, Lord Protector, call himself Oliver Cromwell? Why was Winston Churchill with all his other responsibilities in World War Two really concerned with Britain's last witchcraft trial? What was Adolf Hitler's brother doing in Liverpool before World War One? Why was it once fatal to impersonate a Chelsea Pensioner? Discover how taxation on windows coined the expression 'daylight robbery', extraordinary places like an underground church, royalty, murder, Shakespeare, food and drink, cleaning your teeth with sugar, our love affair with teeth, government, politics, money and the law, diseases and prisons and extraordinary Britons like Arthur Ransome the children's author or 'dangerous Bolshevik'. Read on. New full price, 144pp. First published by David & Charles in 2011 and reprinted many times. Well illus. with line art and photos.