Description: How PG Wodehouse used his comic creations to poke fun at those pompous stinkers who built the British Empire.
Brief description: Seán Lang is Honorary Visiting Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, UK where he was for many years Senior Lecturer in History, specialising in the history of the British Empire and of modern Europe. He wrote four of the For Dummies series of popular histories, including the bestselling British History for Dummies (2006) and European History for Dummies (2006). He is a regular broadcaster on radio and television, commenting on history and on current affairs.