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Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter
Author(s): Otto English (Author)
- Publisher: Tallis Street Books
- Publication Date: 7 May 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 400 pages
- ISBN-10: 1035420333
- ISBN-13: 9781035420339
Book Description
History loves a villain.
Across the entire span of human civilisation, certain people and groups have been identified as being responsible for the ills of the world, and have remained hated for it. In his continuing desire to separate out the facts from the fiction of history, Otto English looks at how these legacies were constructed and who told us that they were evil.
From how Bloody Mary became the figurehead of uppity women and how Judas’s betrayal became a template for religious tensions for centuries to what the Peasants Revolt and the Illuminati shows us about power struggles throughout the ages, English exposes the agendas behind the ‘truths’ we’ve been told to believe. And in looking at how xenophobia was weaponised during the ‘Spanish’ Flu, he reveals how our past sometimes bleeds into the present day.
Fascinating and fearless, Notorious will re-examine some of the history’s biggest villains and change the way you see the world forever.
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