Comedy
Professor Xim teaches Shalamar and Lanyard the perils of time travel; they explore the reign of Queen Boudicca and have a memorable encounter with a First World War poet. The world as we know it was destroyed in the reckoning, heralding the birth of the New Republic where everything is much better now. Professor Xim uses the time telescope to teach his students, Shalamar and Laynard about ancient times. The lesson doesn’t go exactly to plan. But they do discover why time travel wasn’t perfected until the 21st century. It turns out that debates over unisex bathrooms are nothing new. Britain was trying and failing to leave a European super-state over 2,000 years ago. Gladstone was more bothered about saving fallen women than giving them the vote. Wilfred Owen’s poetry wasn’t as popular with the troops in the trenches as he thought. Can they learn the lessons of history? Will history simply repeat itself? Or will history simply repeat itself?