The History Boys The History Boys The History Boys is a play by British playwright Alan Bennett. The play premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London on 18 May 2004. Its Broadway debut was on 23 April 2006 at the Broadhurst Theatre where 185 performances were staged before it closed on 1 October 2006. The play won multiple awards, including the 2005 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and the 2006 Tony Award for Best Play. The play opens in Cutlers' Grammar School, Sheffield, a fictional boys' grammar school in the north of England. Set in the early 1980s, the play
The Boys' War: Confederate and Union soldiers talk about the Civil War The Boys' War: Confederate and Union soldiers talk about the Civil War The Boys' War: Confederate and Union soldiers talk about the Civil War is a 1990 Children's history book by Jim Murphy. It describes the experiences of boy soldiers in the American Civil War. A review of "The Boys' War" by "BookList" wrote "Except for his overuse of the exclamation point, Murphy's style is nonhistrionic; he allows the drama to come from the boys' words and from the sepia pictures, which evoke the stills in the recent PBS series on the war and are sure to lure browsers of