Greg Jenner is a public historian best known as the host of the hit BBC podcasts You're Dead To Me and Homeschool History, his work on BBC's multi-award winning TV series Horrible Histories, and for his books Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity, From Bronze Age To Silver Screen and A Million Years In A Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life From The Stone Age To The Phone Age. He is an Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book. - GUARDIANA fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and how fame strikes. Sit back and enjoy the ride. - Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsWith characteristic wit and curiosity, Jenner reveals the glamour and graft of celebrity lives in this rich, entertaining and original history. - Dr Hannah Greig, historical adviser to The Favourite and PoldarkA magical mystery tour through the history of celebrity - eye opening, provocative, triumphant. Greg Jenner is a suave and generous guide to the glittering, glamorous, often deadly world of celebrity. Dead Famous takes you deep into fabulous lives, tells all about price you pay for fame and explores why the world in which we live needs to make a few shining people into icons who thrill us, obsess us and then, finally, we want to tear apart. - Kate Williams, author and historian[An] engaging and well-researched book... Jenner brings his material to vivid life - OBSERVERThis is a lively look at history's great and gawped at - and how they reshaped the world around them. - HISTORY REVEALEDDelivers a bounty of colourful anecdotes. - TLSA fiendishly enjoyable and thoroughly engaging look at other people's lives. - Irish Times
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