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The author of Horrible Histories explains how the book series was born. “Instead of what we planned, a joke book with facts, we ended up with a fact book with jokes.” Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube ...
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