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Albert Jack

Author of Red Herrings and White Elephants

29+ Works 1,159 Members 22 Reviews

About the Author

Includes the names: Albert Jack, Graham Willmott

Works by Albert Jack

Red Herrings and White Elephants (2004) 450 copies, 2 reviews

Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes (2008) 223 copies, 5 reviews

Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep: The Origins of Even More Phrases We Use Every Day (2005) 101 copies, 1 review

Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs: The World's Most Puzzling Mysteries Solved (2007) 81 copies, 4 reviews

What Caesar Did for My Salad: The Curious Stories Behind Our Favorite Foods (2010) 74 copies, 4 reviews

That's Bollocks! (2006) 44 copies, 1 review

The Old Dog and Duck: The Secret Meanings of Pub Names (2009) 44 copies, 2 reviews

Black Sheep and Lame Ducks: The Origins of Even More Phrases We Use Every Day (2010) 39 copies, 2 reviews

They Laughed at Galileo: How the Great Inventors Proved Their Critics Wrong (2015) 26 copies

Phantom Hitchhikers and Other Urban Legends: The Strange Stories Behind Tall Tales (2013) 21 copies, 1 review

It's a Wonderful Word: The Real Origins of Our Favourite Words (2011) 13 copies

The Jam: Sounds from the Street (2003) 11 copies

Money for Old Rope - Part 2 (The Big Book of Everything Else) (2012) 5 copies

Last Man in London (2013) 5 copies

Money for Old Rope (The Big Book of Everything - Part 1) (2012) 4 copies

The Jam: Song by Song Biography of Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton & One Of Britain's Best Loved Bands (2007) 3 copies

Mysterious World: World Famous Mysteries Solved (2016) 2 copies

Bermuda Triangle: Real Life Mysteries: Unsolved Mysteries (2015) 2 copies

Children's Nursery Rhymes: The Dark History & Origins of Kid's Nursery Rhymes (2014) 1 copy

American History: Things Even Your Teachers Didn't Know (7 Books in 1 Volume) 1 copy

Three Blind Mice: The Dark History of Nursery Rhymes (2014) 1 copy

Robert Kennedy: JFK: The Death of Marilyn Monroe: Who Didn't Kill Them (2015) 1 copy

Sourire de Mona Lisa: Il Vinci Code Da Real: Où est Mona Lisa? (French Edition) (2016) 1 copy

Turn a Blind Eye: The Origins of Nautical & Military Phrases 1 copy

The Flying Dutchman: Sea Mysteries: Mary Celeste: Bermuda Triangle: Eilean Mor: Buster Crabb: USO (2015) 1 copy

Thistle Versus Rose: 700 Years of Winding up the Scots (2014) 1 copy

Agatha Christie: The Real-Life Agatha Christie Mystery (2015) 1 copy

Unsolved Mysteries: Real Life Mysteries: Ten Famous Disappearances (2018) 1 copy

Death Row Follies and Other Stories (2010) 1 copy

Associated Works

Cat Crimes Through Time (1999) — Contributor — 34 copies, 1 review

Colleagues: An Inter-Media Anthology of Contemporary Artists — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Willmott, Graham
Other names: Jack, Albert (nom-de-plume)
Birthdate: ca. 1964
Gender: male
Nationality: UK

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Reviews

What Caesar Did for My Salad: The Curious Stories… by Albert Jack

Interesting but also frustrating conflation of some genuine food history and lots of apocryphal 'some people say' stories. The author mostly fails to differentiate between factual information and inaccurate food mythology. This is mostly because the book is lacking in citations or references to any sources for the 'facts' we are being given, so the reader is unable to verify or follow up on anything. Unfortunately, it's exactly this type of work that tends to perpetuate historical inaccuracies and misconceptions rather than clear them up.… (more)

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Spod | 3 other reviews | Dec 22, 2023 |

What Caesar Did for My Salad: Not to Mention the… by Albert Jack

Enjoyable potpourri of food facts: the origin of dishes and recipes, sorting myth from fact.

½

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DramMan | 3 other reviews | Mar 10, 2021 |

Red Herrings and White Elephants by Albert Jack

A wonderful reference book giving the meanings behind so many of the phrases we use every day, and some that have gone out of fashion.

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Deborah_J_Miles | 1 other review | Jun 1, 2019 |

Pop goes the weasel : the secret meanings of… by Albert Jack

What we think of as rhymes for children, were really the political cartoons of their day.
Many of them refer to actual events.

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Huaquera | 4 other reviews | Dec 18, 2018 |

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Works: 29
Also by: 2
Members: 1,159
Popularity: #22,170
Rating: ½ 3.4

Reviews: 22
ISBNs: 61

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