Horrible Histories - Greg Jenner!

Date: 17th Jun 2022 @ 2:46pm

On Thursday, Year 4 walked to Oldham Library to listen to Greg Jenner. 

Greg Jenner is a Historical Consultant on the multiple BAFTA award-winning TV comedy series Horrible Histories!

Greg is also the author offour books. Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know (2021) was written during Covid lockdown and topped the Audible History charts. He previously published the critically admired Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity, From Bronze Age To Silver Screen (2020), and the bestselling A Million Years In A Day: A Curious History of Ordinary Life, From Stone Age To Phone Age (2015), which is an entertaining romp through the evolution of our daily routines. In November 2022, Greg’s 4th book will be published. It is a funny and colourfully-illustrated children’s book called You Are History, all about the global history of 50 objects children might use every day.

We found out lots of Historical facts; we have written them below!

"The symbol for bluetooth is a viking rune".

"The first coin was Egyptian and was printed with a lions head"

"Tattooing was a medicine in the Stone Age".

""Spanish and Italian are derived from the Romance language".

Ask us some questions about Greg Jenner or about History!