Tim's English History

By William Pitt

All the highlights of English history come to life in this book for young readers. From ancient times up to our century. Written in the style of a tenyear old boy, named Tim. Even adults have declared that they learned a lot in a very short time. Indispensable for young people who want to know about their history.

• Language: English
• Publisher: M-Y Books
• Release date: Aug 8, 2012
• ISBN: 9781907759727

William Pitt

I was born in Vienna, where I studied music and drama. I worked as an actor and director in the theatre and radio and as a journalist. Roaming around the world for quite some time, I finally settled in Australia. After doing a multitude of jobs and improving my English, I worked as a journalist and in television. This was followed by setting up my own puppet company. I toured Australia and New Zealand for nine years. I was even invited to the Festival of Vienna as the Australian representative. After selling my puppet company, I became a journalist again and later the editor of a magazine. This was followed by lecturing, ending up as the coursecoordinator for a group of colleges. I retired in 2007. During that time, my writing credentials were: Journalist (features for “Sydney Calendar Magazine”, music and theatre critiques), Travel Writer for “Holiday and Travel News”, Managing Editor of “Sydney Calendar Magazine”, scripts for “Migrant Educational Television”, “ABC (Australia)”: “The Electronic Haydn”: Script around a puppet opera by Joseph Haydn, “Channel 9 (Sydney)”: The Super Flying Fun Show, “Channel 10 (Sydney)”: Miniseries included in children’s’ program (“Trip to the Moon”), Four plays for children for puppets and actors, that have each been performed a few hundred times in Australia and New Zealand and a marionette play “The Mutants” for older children and adults, A small satirical booklet called “What About Manners?”, Complete material for Tourism course and material for Marketing course (Colleges). Since I retired I have devoted myself fully to my big love: writing. The following publications are testimony to it. However, unfortunately, most of them were produced by either Vanity publishers or publishers asking for a contribution (and then not keeping up their side of the bargain with promoting). “The Mirror of Words” (Poetry) – published as a CDRom by L & R Hartley, Murwillambah “War Games” (Poetry and short stories) – published by Rosedog Books, USA, “A Tear in the Sky” (Poetry and short stories) – published by Red Lead Press, USA, “Alone” (Novella) – published by Astemari Publisher, USA, HAS SINCE GONE BANKRUPT, OUT OF PRINT “A Bunyip for Sydney” (Novel for young adults) – published by Pegasus Publishers, Cambridge, “An Australian Monarch” (Nonfiction) – published by Copyright Publishing, Brisbane, CONTRIBUTION PUBLISHER, NO PROMOTION, I HAD TO DO IT ALL MYSELF: BOOKLAUNCH, ORGANIZING INTERVIEWS, ETC., AT LEAST THE BOOK IS BEING SOLD AT THE SOUVENIR SHOP AT THE PRINCIPALITY OF HUTT RIVER (SUBJECT OF THE BOOK) AND HAS SOLD IN A FEW BOOKSHOPS. “Eposta” (Fantasy novel as ebook) – published by ebooks for pleasure “The Power of Symbols” (Nonfiction as ebook) – published by ebooks for pleasure “Gods and Clowns” (History of Puppetry) – published by ebooks for pleasure My satirical novel “How Browne Was My Country” is with Zeus Publications – WILL APPEAR SOME TIME IN 2011. Some of my short stories and poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies Why do I keep writing? The answer is simple: If I’m not breathing, I’m dead and if I’m not writing, I’m dead! And yes, I have many more plots and ideas in my head.

Book preview

My mum often says: I’m getting old. Very funny. She has no idea what old is.

Some time ago they discovered a skeleton. That was really old. The people who found it, called it a lady.

Somebody must have played a trick on her. She was all covered in red. They called her the Red Lady of Paviland (that’s where they found her). They say she is 26,000 years old.

But it was a silly mistake. The lady is really a man.

Later, people put up strange buildings. One of them is Stonehenge. It took them more than 1,000 years to finish it.

There are also some rocks in Avebury. Not far from it is Silbury Hill. They call it a mound. It is 40 metres high (more than twice as high as our house). It is the tallest mound in all of Europe.

The Celts came next. They had many tribes and little kingdoms. Their priests were called Druids.

They believed in many gods and liked learning.

The Celts were also very good with horses. It didn’t help them when the Romans came.

Because the Romans were very greedy. They already owned so many countries, but they wanted England too.

Julius Caesar tried to come across the sea but he had to give up. That made the Romans angry. They built more ships and conquered all of England.

But we also have to say thank you to the Romans. They built roads, made agriculture better and set up towns. One of them was Londinium which is now London.

Now everybody had to speak Latin. Maybe that was the reason why some people were unhappy. Especially two Celtic tribes from Norfolk. They wanted to throw the Romans out.

Their leader was a woman. Boudica was her name. They had a lot of success but then the Romans won again. But they could never catch Boudica. Not long after she drank poison and died.

Boudica had made such a mess that the Roman emperor Nero wanted to get rid of Britannia (that’s how the Romans called England).

But he didn’t. That was good for the Romans. They made a lot of