Various (Ladybird Books)

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Referenced as 'Lady Bird, kings and queens of England' in the context of discussing whether Lady Jane Grey should be considered a queen - the speaker notes that if you don't have an entry in this Ladybird book series, you're not considered a legitimate monarch.

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Referenced as 'the Lady Bird, Kings and Queens of England books' that the speaker read as a child, which gave them their basic chronology of English and British history

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Referenced when discussing how Captain Cook was taught in British schools, as a measure of his fame in English history

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Referenced multiple times as children's educational history books, including mention that 'my Lady Bird books when I was a child talked about the golden age of Elizabethan England' and later regarding impressions of Rome as a golden age.

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Dominic has this Ladybird book physically with him during the recording. It's discussed at length because it opens with two stories that are completely untrue—Cromwell being stolen by a monkey as a baby, and having a childhood fight with Charles I. Dominic uses it to illustrate how mythologized stories can hook children into history even if they need debunking later.

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Tom mentions this Ladybird book as a source of childhood disappointment—he expected a book about Julius Caesar the person but found it was largely about Roman Britain, with too much about road-building and not enough about dramatic events like Caesar's assassination. He says he felt he'd been sold 'dodgy goods.'

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Discussed as an example of how children's history books reflect changing perspectives. The 1957 edition's illustration showed Raleigh's perspective as he launches an attack on indigenous people in the Orinoco region, while the 1980 reissue changed the illustration to show Raleigh through the eyes of the people seeing him arrive—a significant shift in whose viewpoint is privileged.