Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

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There is a reasonably claustrophobic environment created in the school, and many of the characters have something they'd rather others didn't know. There's the usual school rivalry and a mysterious new teacher who seems just a little too intense in her interactions. When a new house mistress starts, her friend's artwork starts to get misused to reveal secrets about the girls one by one including a secret of Kate's... He is also the Historical Consultant to BBC's Emmy and multi-BAFTA award-winning comedy sketch-show HORRIBLE HISTORIES, being solely responsible for the factual accuracy of over 2,000 sketches and 150 comedy songs. He also worked on HORRIBLE HISTORIES: THE MOVIE - ROTTEN ROMANS. then the ending (spoilers) . ugh i really hated it. like i like this book as a book but not as a thriller if that makes sense. I really had no interest in finding out who pushed clemmie, and there was nothing there that made it all come together in the end. like yeah, it being calding made sense, but there were no hints that made you suspect her but then you ruled her out bc of one assumption that was made but then you notice something you missed and it all comes together and makes sense now. that would have been great. but it was more like, nobody really knew who it was, there weren’t really any suspects so the reader didn’t start to build their own theories and get into the mystery of it. and then you find out it’s calding and you’re just like ok yeah that makes sense. so yeah that was disappointing. see the thing is, i’ve seen that technique used really cleverly before but this didn’t seem purposeful. it seemed like the writer had attempted writing that section, didn’t like how it had turned out and had just decided to summarise it so we get the idea. so yeah that really annoyed me

Dead Popular follows Kate, the most popular girl and Head Prefect at Pankhurst boarding school. One of her old friends, Sasha, is not returning for the school year after expulsion, and somebody wants revenge. We follow Kate and her form as they throw status symbol parties disrupted by school room pranks with more sinister motives. Everything can be explained away until one girl ends up dead. greg takes his role as the pop historian laureate very seriously (although this is a book about celebrity prior to 1940s, he quotes lorde among others).Properly live-in-a-country-house, summer-in-Italy posh’ … Florence Nightingale. Photograph: Florence Nighingale Museum/BBC I loved this book. I read a lot of thrillers and the building up of the characters and the setting made it unputdownable. (Is that a word? It should be). I grew up with the Chalet School books by Elinor Brent-Dyer set in a boarding school in the Austria / Switzerland and Dead Popular reminded me of some of their adventure. Dervla Nolan, a quiet and mysterious Irish trauma therapist (Revealed to have joined the show in an attempt to gain the prize money to help her family after a recent disaster in her home village) As a broadcaster, Greg is the host of the chart-topping BBC comedy podcast YOU'RE DEAD TO ME in which comedians and academic historians are paired up to explore different historical subjects with a bold blend of humour and nuanced detail. The series regularly tops the Apple podcast charts, and was the number 1 show on BBC Sounds in 2021.

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen, despite its subtitle, focuses mostly on the period between the early 18th century and the 1950s (and within that, largely people from the UK and US). Greg Jenner argues that celebrity as we think of it today first emerges in the early decades of the eighteenth century, enabled by various technological and societal factors, and that it's distinguished from fame or renown by its focus on the personality/private life of the celebrity and on the kind of economic infrastructure that grows up around them. Her friends Bel and Lo always stood by her until one party thrown by Kate results in a girl dying, her sort of enemy/rival Clemmie. Horribly Famous (previously also Dead Famous) is a series of books containing biographies of notable people who are now dead. These books are written by a range of authors and the books are, in some cases ghost-written under the same name as the one person featured in a Dead Famous book. As a spin-off series, Horrible Histories aims to offer an enchanting humour and style of writing that appeals to children so they can be educated and entertained. Whilst previously Horribly Famous and Dead Famous were separate, during the redesigning of the book covers, Dead Famous books became republished using the new Horribly Famous cover design, effectively rendering the Dead Famous series obsolete. Many of the titles were also shortened, such as "Leonardo da Vinci and His Super-brain" to Da Vinci and His Super-brain.File:Leonardo-da-vinci-his-super-brain.jpg Former cover of Dead Famous book Leonardo da Vinci and His Super-brain File:Da-Vinci-and-His-Super-brain.jpeg Current cover of Horribly Famous book Da Vinci and His Super-brain File:Former horribly famous.jpg Cover of Horribly Famous book Julius Caesar and his Foul Friends, showcasing the former Horribly Famous design