'There were two theories about the Black Death. One was that it was the bionic plague’!! So says one of Paul Sharpe’s history pupils. Or how about this ‘Elgar taught himself to play the violin, cello and baboon’! This rib-tickling collection of history howlers, from the mildly diverting to the hilarious, is sure to pass an hour or two in giggly, heart-warming amusement. A valuable insight into the things that history pupils manage to get so, so wrong.