![]() ![]() It turns out that Danny ain’t gonna let us down. It is an assertion at which even the late, great Sir Roger Moore would have raised more than one eyebrow, let alone the entire historical firmament. ![]() With it all going cako bako, he claimed last October that his new two-part, primetime BBC1 series Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family, which began on last Wednesday (30 January), would, bear with me here, ‘inject fun’ into history. Derided early in his career as ‘the byword for low-budget, no-quality Brit-trash cinema’, his role as landlord of the Queen Vic and the recent discovery of royal roots in a well-received episode of hit genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? have, it seems, transformed his career and status as wannabe national treasure. There, I said it.Įnter, though, an unlikely herald – Danny Dyer, Eastenders actor, notorious Brit-flick hardman and geezer of all geezers, a modern-day everyman. ![]() ![]() There are times, particularly in our social media age, when professional historians can be more than a little po-faced and self-important when it comes to the communication of history to mass audiences. Dr Paul Dryburgh, principal records specialist at The National Archives, says ‘Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family’ might be history with its tongue firmly in its cheek, but this fresh approach to TV history is an ‘example of a tiny acorn of a programme from which mighty oaks might grow’. ![]()
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