Re your editorial on Horrible Histories (6 December), my son did his degree in history thanks in no small part to him having watched the show. It whiled away car journeys on the DVD players attached to our seat headrests and we all sang along to the sketches. My favourite line is in the RAF Pilots song: “Take that, Hitler!”
Allan Senior
Deganwy, Conwy
• I work at a heritage site on the Devon coast. Overwhelmingly, the sharpest reaction to the grim lives of quarrymen at Beer Quarry Caves over the centuries of pay at sixpence a day is from the eight- to 12-year-olds. They exit their tours glowing and telling our guides that this is Horrible Histories for real.
Kevin Cahill
Exeter
• I have often been dismayed by the vilification of Sadiq Khan in the media. The news that he is said to be in line for a knighthood is music to my ears (Report, 6 December). I admire his persistence in implementing unpopular policies that improve Londoners’ lives.
Linda Rhead
Hampton, London
• Jacob Rees-Mogg making his children dress in black tie for dinner on Saturdays sounds ridiculous (Meet the Rees-Moggs: a bluffer’s guide to the family’s weirdness, 6 December). Getting all the family together round the table for a special meal once a week, and dressing up for it, sounds great.
Revd Philip Welsh
London
• The new Jaguar (Report, 3 December) would surely be improved by the addition of the giant doily from Jasleen Kaur’s Turner prize-winning exhibition (Report, 3 December.
John Lowery
London
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