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/10.109...

https://www.independent.ie/entertainm...

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...

https://www.martyndowner.com/books/th...

https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7...

https://www.historyextra.com/period/m...

https://thehistorianshut.com/2017/08/...

The Sultan of Zanzibar: The Bizarre World and Spectacular Hoaxes of Horace de Vere Cole, by Martyn Downer:
https://www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

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=lQI...

The Dreadnought Hoax:
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bi...

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