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The book inspired the parody 1066 and All That. [4] Prime Minister David Cameron chose Our Island Story when asked to select his favourite childhood book in October 2010: [2] When I was younger, I particularly enjoyed Our Island Story by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall [...] It is written in a way that really captured my imagination and which ...
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (usually credited as H. E. Marshall; 9 August 1867 – 19 September 1941) was a Scottish writer, particularly well known for her works of popular national history for children. She is best known for her 1905 work Our Island Story, which was published abroad as An Island Story: A Child's History Of England.
Davis published two additional books in 1908: In the Realm of Make-Believe and Other Fairy Tales in Rhyme, a collection of illustrated children's stories from books that were out-of-print, [20] and Cat Tales and Kitten Tails, Volume I. [21] Mary Hayes Davis wrote the verses for Cat Tales and Kitten Tails, while her co-author Jennie Van Allen wrote the stories. [21]
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Davis retreated from films to a muted second act on TV, while Modine reverted to the peculiar little indies he clearly prefers, before a comeback in “Stranger Things.” “Cutthroat” held ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. United States writer, political and labor movement activist Frank Marshall Davis Born (1905-12-31) December 31, 1905 Arkansas City, Kansas, U.S. Died July 26, 1987 (1987-07-26) (aged 81) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. Pen name Frank Boganey Occupation Journalist, poet Genre Social realism ...
The book is a parody of the style of history teaching in English schools at the time, in particular of Our Island Story. [5] It purports to contain "all the History you can remember", and, in sixty-two chapters, covers the history of England from Roman times through 1066 "and all that", up to the end of World War I, at which time "America was ...
Scotland's Story is a book by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall first published in 1906 in the United Kingdom [1] and in 1910 in the United States. [2] It was reissued in 2005. [ 3 ] It is about the history of Scotland, and it also has some legends having to do with Scotland.