Slightly related, but the children’s book “Book of the Maidservant” is a wonderful bit of historical fiction that tells the story of Margery Kemp from the perspective of her maid as she gets dragged across Europe on a pilgrimage (big Catherine Called Birdy vibes). It’s excellent.
Alright, but there is no way that book was in the cupboard all along... clearly dumped by some panicking time traveller who was like, This Will Do! before disappearing off to do shenanigans somewhere.
You’ve constructed an unattainable goal. Every person who is inspired by this video to purchase a copy of “Mavericks” will also see The Guardian critic’s description of Truss’ book and be seized by a desire to read that misfit’s literary train wreck thus pushing the goal ever forward.
Errrrm no, there's no need to read the truss book. The TLDR is..... I was right, my budget was perfect and exactly what the economy needed (to swell the trust funds of the ultra rich), and everyone else was wrong. That's why my budget tanked the economy. Foolish deluded puppet.
I am sitting on my bed. There are well over 1000 books in this room. I shan't guess how many are in the house because I am a bibliophile. Worse, I use most of the books for research every year. If I don't own a copy of a book I need/want I just buy it to save me the trouble of hiring a chauffeur to take me the nearest research library.
I have to think that paying a scribe to write out an book would cost more than most people would be willing to pay for the story of their neighbor's life.
When I was at university, I wrote an essay about the Lincoln Magna Carta. Which for those that don't know is one of the few surviving 1215 versions. Most surviving versions come from later reissues as King John had the original made void by the Pope. So most of the copies were destroyed. The Lincoln Magna Carta survived because it seems to have been put into a drawer and forgotten about for the best part of 600 years. It was only rediscovered in the late 19th century by someone doing some sorting in the Lincoln Cathedral Library. They opened a draw and found an old document that wasn't listed in the library records and that turned out to be a 1215 Magna Carta. The Cathedral published a great book about the history of their copy at the time of the 2015 anniversary and it has that story, and others about the slightly wild life their Magna Carta has had since it was rediscovered.
Hello J.Draper. Just wandering if your book would be suitable for early teens? My sister loves reading and we’re both big fans of your content. Her birthday is a few days after the books comes out so I’d love to get it for her. 😊
Well: 1. Buy two of her books (we all want her to reach her goal!). 2. Read very fast and 3. Give away the second (still new) book to the teen who has the birthday, when you think it fits. Or 4. Buy a different gift for the teen after reading and give the book to an adult with a love for history at the next fitting get-together 😅 Problem solved 😅, Jenny happy!
I think the only elderly thing I've pulled out of any cabinets in any of my dwellings has been a potato stubbornly trying to take root or a can of seasoned salt well past its expiry.
Hoping to help you meet your goals, Ms. Draper. I've ordered my copy to come all the way here to British Columbia, Canada. Bought & paid. I await with bated breath. 😅😉 Congratulations on your (hopefully first of many, ) book 🎉🎉🎉
I love this stuff. A manuscript older than my country (US) just falls out of a cupboard because it got forgotten about. Like how? Who has cupboards that don't get opened for a century or more? Or how do you just miss a handwritten manuscript if you do open it sooner?!
I really confused my Maths teacher once by saying that my first aim was to pass my GCSEs, since I was predicted to do really well. The explanation that I liked having at least one goal that I would almost certainly meet didn't seem to sit very well.
Oh, topic idea you've reminded me of: The history of book-making/binding/printing in London. I've visited the American Bookbinding Museum here in San Francisco, and it was surprisingly fascinating how much that has changed over centuries, and how that has changed the price of books.
Was it Kemp who had to have a scribe write it out for her because she was illiterate, the scribe got halfway through and then died or something so she took it to another scribe to finish and was told she'd been scammed by the previous scribe and he'd just been writing nonsense so she had to start over?
There is a book called For thy Great Pain, Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie, where she writes half the book from Margery Kempe’s perspective. It’s really good!❤❤❤
Also a pretty low bar, but if you adapted your book into a 30-60 minute spoken performance for the Edinburgh Fringe you'd also get a far better response than she did. She really should have stuck to those pork markets.
Joolz Guides, Tasting History, and now this? All my favourite You Tubers are putting out books. Whats next? " A History of Christmas Tree Illumination" by Technology Connections? I'd buy it.
Damn that's a great sales pitch. I very much want almost anyone to sell more books than Liz Truss! ... Did anyone but journalists and people who thought it'd be a laugh (and i assume they were wrong) buy that?
Will it be available on amazon? I am in Canada and would love to buy a copy. Yours is one of my favourite channels...always learn something interesting.
Perhaps you should do a video on the invention of ping pong (or table tennis). It was invented by two brothers. One was a communist and the other was the guy who put across Operation Mincemeat.
Oh no! I can see them fine on my end- perhaps you have a differently-shaped phone that is cropping the video? I'm afraid you'll have to use the UA-cam subtitles instead for now.
It presumably belonged to bunch of people over the centuries who didn't understand its importance, it was just some old family memorabilia to them. One of them shoved it in a cupboard and forgot about it, but I doubt that it spent more than a few decades in that particular spot.
Also: August 9th 📚♥️🥰Book Lover’s Day 🎱National Billiards And Pool Day International Coworking Day International Day Of The World’s Indigenous People 👫National Hand Holding Day 💃🏻🕺🏻National Polka Day National Psychiatric Technician Appreciation Day 🍚National Rice Pudding Day National Veep Day 🇸🇬Singapore’s National Day 🥤😁National Kool-Aid Day
The truly hilarious things about European countries is just how old we are. Americans call a century ago ancient history while the Brit’s have medieval manuscripts falling out of the cupboards.
Depends on where you are in the US. I’m in Massachusetts, and I just had to explain to a new colleague from out-of-state about an old house. He started with old being 200 years. Then 250. It’s 350-375 years old. Which is unusually early, of course, for a surviving house! There are missions in California from the late 1500s.
I'm Brazilian. I can safely say we would also have more historic stuff here if the colonizers hadn't intentionally erased and/or outlawed most of the culture of the indigenous peoples.
@prestok This!!! It bothers me so much when people talk about the americas as if they were completely empty before colonizers came. Indigenous culture & history can be super fun & interesting and I think that everyone should take time to learn about the people who originally lived wherever they happen to live
If I were watching a movie and ping pong players found an incredibly rare 400 yo manuscript looking for balls, I'd be angry at the crap script writing.
If just 0.5% of your subscribers buy a copy of your book you will beat Liz Truss 🥳👏👍 My worry is who will the Conservative Party members elect as their next leader as their last 5 choices have been absolutely appalling 😢🗳️🩸
I am very proud to say, that as an professional artist, I have sold more paintings than Vincent van Gogh. While alive.
That's not true, Van Gogh sold hundreds of paintings! (by other people, when he worked in an art gallery lmao)
@@davidshi451 I think his brother worked in an art gallery, and yet even he couldn't sell even one of those gems...
@@Weirdkauz as a fellow artist, I probably laughed too hard at this. But oh how I laughed! 🥂 cheers
@@ArtBlueCrane cheers, Mate!
You may as well go for being PM for longer than Liz too. Attainable goals and all.
if she ever were to get the office, I"m sure she'd outlast a lettuce
I wrote out my autobiography by hand, too, but using glue rather than ink. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Okay, dad.
👏............. 👏...................... 👏 ...
😂😂😂😂😂
Very good 🤣🤣
🤣
Slightly related, but the children’s book “Book of the Maidservant” is a wonderful bit of historical fiction that tells the story of Margery Kemp from the perspective of her maid as she gets dragged across Europe on a pilgrimage (big Catherine Called Birdy vibes). It’s excellent.
I loved Catherine Called Birdie! Ill have to look for this one!
Maybe the Tudors played ping-pong while having some tea on a Sunday afternoon
They did play tennis while having Sunday tea, though.
@@ferretyluv I thought they were into football. Indeed, Anne Boleyn was a well-known West Ham hooligan.
I love the search for ping pong balls turning up a long lost medieval manuscript!
Alright, but there is no way that book was in the cupboard all along... clearly dumped by some panicking time traveller who was like, This Will Do! before disappearing off to do shenanigans somewhere.
Right?! Time traveller was my first thought too! Have you read A Discovery of Witches perchance?
@@squee599 Or perhaps a time-travelling historian! Have you read "Just one damned thing after another"?
@@katarinarosell4422 No I haven't but thanks for the recommendation!
@@squee599 Guilty
@@katarinarosell4422 Yep, that too! Also my favourite - To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Not only will you be able to say you sold more copies than the prime minister but you'll be able to say you've kept your job longer.
You’ve constructed an unattainable goal.
Every person who is inspired by this video to purchase a copy of “Mavericks” will also see The Guardian critic’s description of Truss’ book and be seized by a desire to read that misfit’s literary train wreck thus pushing the goal ever forward.
I read that article and the best part was that there was a link at the end to purchase the book at The Guardian webstore
Errrrm no, there's no need to read the truss book. The TLDR is..... I was right, my budget was perfect and exactly what the economy needed (to swell the trust funds of the ultra rich), and everyone else was wrong. That's why my budget tanked the economy. Foolish deluded puppet.
would love to see a short with just that...."I sold more copies than the Prime Ministah!" LOL
Oh, Margery. Bless your heart, honey.
I read her bio as part of a seminar class, and that was just on loop in my brain! ❤
I don’t love books…I just tell them i do so they will go to bed with me
That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard today 😊
A day for book lovers to love books? That is like every day, I mean, if books were gold, we'd be dragons!
Every day in our house is Book Lovers Day! (Also, Cat Lovers Day, Tea Lovers Day, and probably a few others.)
I am sitting on my bed. There are well over 1000 books in this room. I shan't guess how many are in the house because I am a bibliophile. Worse, I use most of the books for research every year. If I don't own a copy of a book I need/want I just buy it to save me the trouble of hiring a chauffeur to take me the nearest research library.
@@cuttwice3905Look at this rich person showing off! Genuinely, I am happy for you.
I have to think that paying a scribe to write out an book would cost more than most people would be willing to pay for the story of their neighbor's life.
When I was at university, I wrote an essay about the Lincoln Magna Carta. Which for those that don't know is one of the few surviving 1215 versions. Most surviving versions come from later reissues as King John had the original made void by the Pope. So most of the copies were destroyed.
The Lincoln Magna Carta survived because it seems to have been put into a drawer and forgotten about for the best part of 600 years. It was only rediscovered in the late 19th century by someone doing some sorting in the Lincoln Cathedral Library. They opened a draw and found an old document that wasn't listed in the library records and that turned out to be a 1215 Magna Carta.
The Cathedral published a great book about the history of their copy at the time of the 2015 anniversary and it has that story, and others about the slightly wild life their Magna Carta has had since it was rediscovered.
"I sold more copies than a head of lettuce." 🤣
Hello J.Draper. Just wandering if your book would be suitable for early teens? My sister loves reading and we’re both big fans of your content. Her birthday is a few days after the books comes out so I’d love to get it for her. 😊
Same
Well:
1. Buy two of her books (we all want her to reach her goal!).
2. Read very fast
and
3. Give away the second (still new) book to the teen who has the birthday, when you think it fits.
Or
4. Buy a different gift for the teen after reading and give the book to an adult with a love for history at the next fitting get-together 😅
Problem solved 😅, Jenny happy!
@@lisettegroot3789 that’s not a bad idea thanks! ☺️
I'm fairly sure you've already passed the low ball of Ms. Truss.😂
I think the only elderly thing I've pulled out of any cabinets in any of my dwellings has been a potato stubbornly trying to take root or a can of seasoned salt well past its expiry.
Hoping to help you meet your goals, Ms. Draper.
I've ordered my copy to come all the way here to British Columbia, Canada. Bought & paid. I await with bated breath. 😅😉
Congratulations on your (hopefully first of many, ) book 🎉🎉🎉
I can't begin to say how much I want a house that could conceivably contain undiscovered 400 year old book
Oh, you are so right! I can't even imagine living in a house where that could happen.
Didn’t expect Chesterfield to be mentioned! Weird to think anything that iconic ever happened here
“Up the Historians!!! Give us a goal, you bookworms!!!”
Jenn needs to do a video with Map Men…
Well, considering you've put yourself up against someone who lost to a lettuce....... yes, i wanna buy your book!
Well done and good luck with your book! I think you will sell more than Liz before its available!!!
You have the most amazing stories!
Looking forward to February!
I love this stuff. A manuscript older than my country (US) just falls out of a cupboard because it got forgotten about. Like how? Who has cupboards that don't get opened for a century or more? Or how do you just miss a handwritten manuscript if you do open it sooner?!
I really confused my Maths teacher once by saying that my first aim was to pass my GCSEs, since I was predicted to do really well. The explanation that I liked having at least one goal that I would almost certainly meet didn't seem to sit very well.
Oh, topic idea you've reminded me of: The history of book-making/binding/printing in London. I've visited the American Bookbinding Museum here in San Francisco, and it was surprisingly fascinating how much that has changed over centuries, and how that has changed the price of books.
Pre-ordered. I can’t wait to be able to read it
Interested in the book already but helping you achieve this important goal is another good reason to buy it 😄
I feel like that's just England all over. Pick a random direction and within ten minutes you'll be tripping over a centuries-old something.
selling more than Lizz Truss is honestly a top-tier goal, if not achievement XD
That house is now a pretty decent pub too
@@danburrows9635 ooh, which pub is it please?
In Canada, "Mavericks" will be available at Indigo 😊
I'd already pre-ordered, but might need to add another copy to make that dream come true :)
The timing on this is incredible.
Oh, how the prime ministers have fallen! Liz Truss is an open goal, trying to one up sir Winston is a bit more of a challenge...
I have ordered my copy and I look forward to hearing when you achieve this impressive goal!
Just pre-ordered the Hardcover. Looking forward to having it to read during winter!
Was it Kemp who had to have a scribe write it out for her because she was illiterate, the scribe got halfway through and then died or something so she took it to another scribe to finish and was told she'd been scammed by the previous scribe and he'd just been writing nonsense so she had to start over?
I think the first scribe was her son, who had become a monk.
An achievable goal. Well put.
There is a book called For thy Great Pain, Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie, where she writes half the book from Margery Kempe’s perspective. It’s really good!❤❤❤
Your clips are very intresting , and i like how present them easy to understand even a child could understan . Thumbs up
Outstanding video, thanks.
"That time she got married to God" Yeah, yeah, I've taken DMT too, Margery.
Also a pretty low bar, but if you adapted your book into a 30-60 minute spoken performance for the Edinburgh Fringe you'd also get a far better response than she did.
She really should have stuck to those pork markets.
Awesome! I'd like to get a copy of your book.
Achievable goals rock!
Ping pong... I thought it's called whiff whaff! Like Boris Johnson said... WHIFF WHAFF
Joolz Guides, Tasting History, and now this? All my favourite You Tubers are putting out books. Whats next? " A History of Christmas Tree Illumination" by Technology Connections? I'd buy it.
You are fun, so much so it is contagious.
I hope your book will be available here in the US!
Your book is paid for and on order. Can't wait.
It would be useful to have a link to the Mevericks book in the description.
I think Margery was the first recreational ecstasy user in Britain.
Damn that's a great sales pitch. I very much want almost anyone to sell more books than Liz Truss! ... Did anyone but journalists and people who thought it'd be a laugh (and i assume they were wrong) buy that?
Poor Liz Truss, not even an MP anymore! :D I think out selling her is an easy achievement
So she made a self-insert fic about god? And paid someone to write it for her? Icon.
Will it be available on amazon? I am in Canada and would love to buy a copy. Yours is one of my favourite channels...always learn something interesting.
I can't wait! Finally something godd with february.
I've been looking for new balls for years. I decided they're not worth it.
The clothing iron had not yet been invented when this video was made.
I pre ordered your book❤
Preorder put in! ❤
Hell yeah chesterfield shoutout
Can you talk about some famous horror stories in london
Try outselling Alice Luxton if you achieve this one Jenny. 😊😁 📚 📖
Perhaps you should do a video on the invention of ping pong (or table tennis). It was invented by two brothers. One was a communist and the other was the guy who put across Operation Mincemeat.
Who knows, your book might sell more than both the memoirs of the late prime minister Margaret Thatcher, let alone Liz Truss's book.
You're awesome 🎉
How many copies will you sell before this lettuce rots
That’s unlikely to happen in Chicago.
Is your book going to be available in the U.S. as well, or is it UK only?
Will there be an audiobook version?
Charming😅
Interesting video as always, Jenny! But your subtitles are cut off at the top and mostly unreadable, at least on my phone.
Oh no! I can see them fine on my end- perhaps you have a differently-shaped phone that is cropping the video? I'm afraid you'll have to use the UA-cam subtitles instead for now.
I think you can probably get that fixed by clicking on the expand icon at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
Wait nobody opened that cupboard for 400 years?!
It's more likely that the book was stuck in it or hidden and it didn't literally fall out.
It presumably belonged to bunch of people over the centuries who didn't understand its importance, it was just some old family memorabilia to them. One of them shoved it in a cupboard and forgot about it, but I doubt that it spent more than a few decades in that particular spot.
Thank You J. For another interesting diversion from doing tedious things .
Cheers From California 😎
We all have cabinets, closets, and cupboards we haven't looked into in a while, but that's going a little far!
Old furniture often incorporated hidden compartments. It could have been shoved into a compartment and finally jostled loose.
How did a 15th century manuscript end up in Missouri of all places? 😅
(There is a Chesterfield in Missouri. It's a joke.)
aaaaaaaaaand ... that's an insta-buy. one less copy to sell!
Its called Table Tennis thank you very much :D
I think wiggle your toes day is worse
You deserve to sell more copies than several of your recent Prime Ministers. But I don't wish to give you faint praise.
The story of he story is more amazing than anything she could have written about Jesus' hot abs.😅
Will there be an audio book?🤞🏻🙏
I hope you don’t take offense to me saying that I think you’re hot. I like your style too . And you seem like a really fun and cool person as well
Give it up.
@@timl.b.2095 hater and troll
Thank you
Call Back Ping-Pong? 🤔
Just sold me on your book
You might sell more books than Liz, but have you opened up new pork markets?
Will it be available in the US?
It is! Do try your local bookshop, or Barnes & Noble, or Amazon.
I just preordered on Amazon (US) where it is tagged as "#1 New Release in :Doctors and Medicine Humor".
Yes! I pre-ordered from my local independent book shop!
@@JDraper I'll make sure to get a pre-order next time I stop by my local book store.
They also have a cat, so I try and stop by regularly.
Also:
August 9th
📚♥️🥰Book Lover’s Day
🎱National Billiards And Pool Day
International Coworking Day
International Day Of The World’s Indigenous People
👫National Hand Holding Day
💃🏻🕺🏻National Polka Day
National Psychiatric Technician Appreciation Day
🍚National Rice Pudding Day
National Veep Day
🇸🇬Singapore’s National Day
🥤😁National Kool-Aid Day
The truly hilarious things about European countries is just how old we are. Americans call a century ago ancient history while the Brit’s have medieval manuscripts falling out of the cupboards.
Depends on where you are in the US.
I’m in Massachusetts, and I just had to explain to a new colleague from out-of-state about an old house. He started with old being 200 years. Then 250. It’s 350-375 years old. Which is unusually early, of course, for a surviving house!
There are missions in California from the late 1500s.
Americans think that a hundred years is a long time. The English that a hundred miles is a long way.
I'm Brazilian. I can safely say we would also have more historic stuff here if the colonizers hadn't intentionally erased and/or outlawed most of the culture of the indigenous peoples.
@prestok This!!! It bothers me so much when people talk about the americas as if they were completely empty before colonizers came. Indigenous culture & history can be super fun & interesting and I think that everyone should take time to learn about the people who originally lived wherever they happen to live
Just hope that your book lasts longer than a lettuce.
@@nzlemming It almost certainly will.
@@Abdul-Akeem_Akinloye Unlike Liz Truss.
If I were watching a movie and ping pong players found an incredibly rare 400 yo manuscript looking for balls, I'd be angry at the crap script writing.
Gonna put the nail in Truss’ coffin!
Jenny, why you go by J. Draper if Jenny is such an awesome name?
If just 0.5% of your subscribers buy a copy of your book you will beat Liz Truss 🥳👏👍
My worry is who will the Conservative Party members elect as their next leader as their last 5 choices have been absolutely appalling 😢🗳️🩸
Will there be an audio book version?