History 101 (novel)

This article is about the Doctor Who novel. For the "Community" episode, see History 101 (Community). For a basic course in history, see wikiversity:School:History. For a guide to history as a discipline, see Outline of history.

History 101

Author	Mags L Halliday
Series	Doctor Who book: Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number	58
Subject	Featuring: Eighth Doctor Fitz and Anji
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	July 2002
Pages	275
ISBN	0-563-53854-6
Preceded by	The Crooked World
Followed by	Camera Obscura

History 101 is a BBC Books original novel written by Mags L Halliday and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji.

Synopsis

Set in the Spanish Civil War, the book (Halliday's first novel) explores the construction of history and the experiences of George Orwell.

The Doctor, Fitz, and Anji, after viewing Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" at the 1937 Paris exhibition, realise time has been changed. They travel back to Spain in order to uncover what affected the artist's vision of this terrible event.

Notes

• History 101 is the only EDA not to have an italicised note at the end of the back cover blurb identifying it as "another in the series of adventures of the Eighth Doctor". The blurb describes the novel as if it were a history textbook, and the last paragraph continues this conceit by explaining it should be read as part of "the ongoing 'Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor' history course".

Outside references

• The chapter names are all Clash song titles, translated into Catalan (for example, "Una Casa Europea Segura"="Safe European Home").

External links

• The Cloister Library - History 101
• History 101 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database