Poetic licence
A Gallup survey of 16-24 year-olds' knowledge of English history elicited some suprisingly creative answers...
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It all began at Hastings
In nineteen fifty-two
When William, Duke of Normans
A foreign parvenu
Let loose the sniper's bullet
Which hampered Harold's view.
Around this time, in Scotland
Will Wallace wiped the floor
With Richard Nixon's army
Who having lost the war
Now signed the Magna Carta
An early sort of truce
At 12.15 near Windsor
The castle of King Bruce.
King Albert, known as Lionheart
Who'd found it hard to cope
At Canterbury Cathedral
Sent knights to kill the Pope
The Spanish King, being Catholic
Dispatched a great Armada
But lost it to King Arthur
Whose English fleet was harder
The IRA and Guy Fawkes
Began now to conspire
To blow Big Ben to pieces
And may have caused the fire
To London's main cathedral
Which had an overhaul
King Henry gave this job to
The architect, St Paul
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