I read the other day that the Norway rat came over to the British Isles at the same time as the House of Hanover was established. It was mooted that the rats were aboard the ship that brought George I to these shores in 1714. Being German and inheriting a hugely complex political and religious situation George became universally unpopular.....as did the Norway rat of course. The tenuous connection between the House of Hanover the the new rats was forged and wags of the time gave the rats the name 'Hanoverians'.
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