A History of Humankind was the third book in the The Doctor's OFFICIAL Guide series, published on 6 October 2016[source needed] by BBC Children's Books and written by Justin Richards. The book was stylised as an in-universe textbook from Coal Hill School "amended" by the Twelfth Doctor with his own notes and illustrations.
Publisher's summary
Robin Hood was just made up. Queen Elizabeth I never married. And nobody knows what happened to Jack the Ripper. Right?
WRONG. If you want to know the real story of human history, then this book is for you!
The Doctor has corrected this Coal Hill history textbook with his own notes and illustrations. Now packed full of real history (i.e. the kind with Daleks and Silurians and time travel), it tells you everything you need to know about our special planet.
It's history, but perhaps not quite as you know it . . .
Worldbuilding
- There are notes and illustrations on dinosaurs, Sea Devils, Silurians, Nefertiti, William Shakespeare, Robin Hood, Kahler Tek, Madge Arwell, Charles Dickens, Gwyneth, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, the Knightmare, Sam Swift, a Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform, Queen Victoria, Vincent van Gogh and Winston Churchill, along with the First, the Fifth, the Twelfth, the Eleventh and the Tenth Doctors.
Notes
to be added
Continuity
- The Ninth Doctor was previously caught defacing books in both the British Library and the York Central Library. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
External links
- Official A History of Humankind page at Penguin Books