Bill Tidy (1933–2023)

Basically Horrible Histories but for adults. More focused on the sexual side of things. Not bad for some chuckles and cringes. The lay out was a bit rushed honestly it felt like. Things just ran together. Would have liked more set up or background in spots.

Tidy did a lot of good work for Punch, but this collection of strips he did for Private Eye is rather weak. Not so much in the art, but in the gags, such as they are. Mostly a series of two-parters with a clog dancing team acting like hooligans, which may or may not have been a parody of soccer fans of the era. Frankly, past the first six or so, your eyes glaze over. Completists only.

The Cloggies - an everyday saga in the life of Clog Dancing Folk. Not quite as funny as I remember it in Private Eye nearly 40 years ago, but still very funny indeed.

I was sniggering and saying OMG in equal measure while reading this book. It is about all those dirty little secrets that the stuffy museums and archaeologists does not want us to know about! So interesting. These books make history come alive...