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How to Avoid History. No one have ever found a way of avoiding history.

It is upon us and around us all. The only thing when you look at the cunning villainous

faces in our class, you wonder if history may not soon be worse than ever.

If the hissed master I go on enough, you begin to believe that death is really upon you.

You have something wrong with your heart which have stopped beating. Your jaw is stuck open

and you cannot close it also, you're going blind. On the whole, it is better to put up with the hiss

lesson and draw beetles on the blotch quietly. The wise words of 1950s schoolboy Nigel Molesworth

or rather of his creators Jeffrey Willens and Ron Oldsirle. Now Nigel Molesworth, one of my heroes,

when I was a child, was not a fan of history or of history lessons or indeed of history books,

but writing for children is one of the great challenges I think for any writer no matter what the genre.

I've been doing it. Tom, you've been writing books for young adults, young adults is basically

teenagers, is that right? So I believe. So I believe, yes, so you've got two books coming out

this week? Yes, that's the first to die. So you've shamelessly shoehorned this into an

episode of the podcast. Well, that's interesting. It's one, it is pure shameless nature self-promotion.

And the second is it is actually genuinely really fascinating topic that even people who have

no interest in history and indeed no children often have very strong opinions about how do you

tell the story of the past for people, you know, in short trousers, not an example of being

sincere. Yeah, I am being sincere. Well, that's just the sincerity and then we can get back to

the self-promotion hopefully in a second. Right. So I've got actually got the proofs of your

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