Peach and the giant history: how a Sheffield boy helped a generation fall in love with the past
The story behind the ‘Adventure from history’ Ladybird books
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Do you ever fall down an internet rabbit hole late at night? Well, this story is proof that they’re not always useless! On one of my recent bouts of “vital research” until 1am, I came across the author L. du Garde Peach, a prolific writer of Ladybird children’s history books in the 1950s, 60s and…
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