Foreword / Charles Demers

Introduction: What is this book and why is it a book?

Sort of understanding the history of the British monarchy: a partial, undeerresearched timeline in several parts: Part 1: The Bronze Age to the formation of the English state

America's dumpiest Presidents

Sort of understanding the history of the British monarchy: a partial, undeerresearched timeline in several parts: Part 2: The early Middle Ages to the actual formation of England

The profoundly silly details of the Boston Tea Party

Sort of understanding the history of the British monarchy: a partial, undeerresearched timeline in several parts: Part 3: The late Middle Ages to what is even more accurately the formation of England, sort of

My personal obsession with Napoleon

Sort of understanding the history of the British monarchy: a partial, undeerresearched timeline in several parts: Part 4: Henry VIII's penis (and interlude)

Some of history's creepiest artists

Sort of understanding the history of the British monarchy: a partial, undeerresearched timeline in several parts: Part 5: The Reformation again almost and then not.

The utterly insane execution of Lady Jane Grey

This part just about the history of cheese

Sort of understanding the history of the British monarchy: a partial, undeerresearched timeline in several parts: Part 6: Elizabethan England and the actual Reformation, for sure this time

I let my friend help: Part 1: The Spanish Inquisition

Sort of understanding the history of the British monarchy: a partial, undeerresearched timeline in several parts: Part 7: Some more stuff and then the English Civil war and then the Restoration

Knowing your wars, knowing your "dieds": your guide to discussing military history with different people's fathers

I let my friend help: Part 2: Some trivia

Sort of understanding the history of the British monarchy: a partial, undeerresearched timeline in several parts: Part 8: Holy shit, it's Britain finally

Some alternative metaphors for "Nazis"

The Founding Fathers: a brief, totally imagineed oral history

Quiz: Whose female-driven personal essay am I?

I let my friend help Part 3: Hypothetical history

Sort of understanding the history of the British monarchy: a partial, undeerresearched timeline in several parts: Part 9: The Victorian era, some bulshit, and good night

What we do for love (of the Civil War, specifically).