#i think the adult ones got too physically cumbersome to read and also school sucked the joy out of it for a while

[cockadoodlebumtits]

So I'd forgotten how much I enjoy reading history books

I've just finished a book about Margaret Beaufort (Uncrowned Queen by Nicola Tallis) and am now partway through Matilda by Catherine Hanley and it's all fascinating

But also I have just learned that the whole line of succession was completely transformed by what sounds like a drunk-driving accident with a death toll of 300.

And that is wild to me.

Not to mention it happened so far back in history that had it not happened, the Horrible Histories song wouldn't have gone "William, William, Henry, Stephen, Henry, Richard, John..."

It would have gone "William, William, Henry, William-" and who knows from that point. That's so far back!