Description
The story of a group of students trying to fool their mayor into thinking they were the royals of a far-off African land - and it working.
WATCH PART 2 HERE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qqz6ekyOCU
Topic suggested (sort of) by Chachenhouser. Got a video idea? Let me know below.
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Image credits:
By Oliver Woodford - Radcliffe Camera, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6202633
By Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32835497
By: Harland Quarrington DDef Pub Pho/MOD, OGL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26911355
By: IWM, © (HU 124255)
Sources: Primarily 'The Dreadnought Hoax' (1936) by Adrian Stephen, but also...
http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/history-stories/guildhall-and-market-square/
https://www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/guildhall/about-guildhall
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol3/pp116-122#h3-0005
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1905-01-01/1905-12-31?basicsearch=zanzibar%20hoax&somesearch=zanzibar%20hoax&retrievecountrycounts=false&sortorder=score&page=2
https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/the-mayor
http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2017/01/25/c-is-for-horace-de-vere-cole/
https://archive.org/details/b21687456
and miscellaneous other sites. Ask me if the one you're looking for isn't here and I'll happily give it to you.
Also, surprised you scrolled down this far. Thanks for watching.