Horace De Vere Cole: The Patron Saint of April Fools' Day

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Source/Further reading:

General Biographies:

https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-61609?rskey=g3ajzn&result=1

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/review-the-sultan-of-zanzibar-by-martyn-downer-26706320.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-sultan-of-zanzibar-by-martyn-downer-1932681.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-sultan-of-zanzibar-by-martyn-downer-2244731.html

https://www.martyndowner.com/books/the-sultan-of-zanzibar/

https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA297829235&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=0736251X&p=AONE&sw=w

https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/how-to-carry-off-a-great-hoax/

https://thehistorianshut.com/2017/08/30/horace-de-vere-cole-the-great-prankster-of-britain/

The Sultan of Zanzibar: The Bizarre World and Spectacular Hoaxes of Horace de Vere Cole, by Martyn Downer:
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/_/IYjkQgAACAAJ?hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiR37mZ0Kf1AhUDSvEDHUV7Am8Qre8FegQIBxAD

The Cambridge Hoax:

Reid, P. (1998). Stephens, Fishers, and the Court of the “Sultan of Zanzibar”: New Evidence from Virginia Stephen Woolf’s Childhood. Biography, 21(3), 328–340. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23540072

Cambridge Student Pranks: A History of Mischief & Mayhem, by Jamie Collinson
https://books.google.com/books?id=lQI7AwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=de+vere+cole&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXhP7E0qf1AhV0mVwKHekSDDYQ6AF6BAgJEAI

The Dreadnought Hoax:
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/21579/Marsh%20Bunga%20bunga%20dreadnought.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Johnston, G. (2009). Virginia Woolf’s Talk on the Dreadnought Hoax. Woolf Studies Annual, 15, 1–45. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24907113

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