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1066 and All That

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The book also contains five joke "Test Papers" interspersed among the chapters, which contain nonsense instructions including the famous "Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once" (Test Paper V), and "Do not attempt to answer more than one question at a time" (Test
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1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, Comprising All the Parts You Can Remember, Including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates
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1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, Comprising All the Parts You Can Remember, Including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates
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According to Sellar and Yeatman, in English history kings are either "Good" or "Bad". The first "Good King" is the confusingly differentiated
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Chapter II begins "that long succession of Waves of which History is chiefly composed", the first of which, here, is composed of
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recommends a better-balanced reading of our past and a wise use of that base for determining our common future."
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and Tobias Nipkow's 1998 "Term Rewriting and All That" was published by Cambridge University Press.
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1066 – and all that: A Musical Comedy based on that Memorable History by Sellar and Yeatman
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are undermined in the work, in the (then contemporary) style of such serious historians as
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And Now All This: Being Vol.I of The Hole Pocket Treasury of Absolutely General Knowledge
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Paper I) and such unanswerable questions as "How far did the Lords Repellent drive
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of the style of history teaching in English schools at the time, in particular of
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Both the Tory view of a 'great man' history, and the liberal pieties of
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a memorable history of England since the war to end all wars (Two)
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punctured the more bombastic claims of drum-and-trumpet history".
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debunking of British greatness, very much in the tradition of
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Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
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Amo, Amas, Amat... and All That: How to Become a Latin Lover
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In an unconnected area of mathematics (Mathematical Logic),
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1492 And All That: Political Manipulations of History.
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mentions this book as the inspiration for its title.
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1089 and All That – A Journey into Mathematics
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Index

1066: And All That

W. C. Sellar
R. J. Yeatman
Steven Appleby
Methuen Publishing
ISBN
978-0-413-77270-1
OCLC
51486473
And Now All This
tongue-in-cheek
W. C. Sellar
R. J. Yeatman
Punch
Methuen & Co. Ltd.
Raphael Samuel
First World War
Eminent Victorians
Whig history
Namier
Herbert Butterfield
post-modernist
parody
Our Island Story
Roman times
1066
Battle of Hastings
Norman conquest of England
first Roman invasion of Britain

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