How It All Started

Uncover the suprising truth about why the world is the way it is!

Why do we walk around with coins and notes in our pockets? Why do Christians, Jews and Muslims all regard Jerusalam as a holy city? Was 'fast food' invented or did it just ... happen?

To shed some light on these present-day conundrums, plus hundreds more, we commissioned the UK's finest historians and journalists to delve into the past .. and what they uncovered was truly fascinating!

Who would have thought that drinking chocolate, rather than tea or coffee, was a British passion in the 17th century. (The first chocolate house - run by a Frenchman - opened in London in 1647!) Or that Gorbachev's dismantling of the communist regime in the Soviet Union, was, in fact, completed unintended.

Filled with little-known facts like these, gripping narratives and captivating illustrations. HOW IT ALL STARTED turns history on its head to create riveting stories that suddently make the modern world make sense.