Explained The Zanzibar Hoax

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=2Qqz6...
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By Oliver Woodford - Radcliffe Camera, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

By Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

By: Harland Quarrington DDef Pub Pho/MOD, OGL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

By: IWM, © (HU 124255)

Sources: Primarily 'The Dreadnought Hoax' (1936) by Adrian Stephen, but also...

http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/hi...
https://www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/...
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/...
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.c...
https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/the-mayor
http://shootingparrots.co.uk/2017/01/.

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