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The Slimy Stuarts

1996Terry Deary

4.9/5

This history book describes the more gruesome side of the Stuart period. It tells why some Stuarts ate toads, snails and fleas, which king picked his nose and never washed his hands, and who wore fish on their feet. Facts about the revolting Roundheads and ghastly Guy Fawkes are given.I really didn't enjoy this book it's so far my least favourite it's not that it wasn't good or the facts wasn't fun it was purely down to the fact that the stuarts and the stuard era was very boring. It was the time of Protestants pretending to be Catholic and if you know your history all the stuarts were all protestants and they was very boring and sad lot of people every thing was sinful. And to start off the stuard era we had the parliament bombing and the birth of Guy Fawkes night who wasn't even the ring leader of the attempt he was just the one caught and was killed because an idiot of the group sent letters to members in parliament not to come so pretty much tipping off the royal guard but hay at least we now have bonfire night in the UK. The stuart period was a dirty and cruel time and as you would exspect horrible now as i mentioned above the book is fun im just not a fan of this period in time is all but as always i reccomened it to all history buffs young and old. 3/5 stars on goodreads 65/100 Ginger points
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