Ebook: Tiny histories: trivial events & trifling decisions that changed British history

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; War; Ealdor Byrhtnoth carries out a misguided act of chivalry; A sailor has an ear cut off (and possibly pickled); Robert Clive reaches for an unreliable pistol; The freighter Vigilancia sinks off the coast of Cornwall; Leopold Lojka makes a wrong turn; A British soldier shows mercy to a future German Chancellor; A farmer shoots a potato-eating pig; Food; A physicist demonstrates his invention for softening bones; The Duc de Richelieu's chef cannot find any cream