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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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From the dust jacket: "Spurning the false idealism and bland caricatures of historical actors that distort the arguments of both sides, Robert Royal surveys the available facts and political positions about Columbus and his legacy and seeks to find the truth among them. His provocative analysis
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Although the subtitle states that the book comprises "103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates", the book's preface mentions that originally four dates were planned, but last-minute research revealed that two of them were
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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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had taken all 10 wickets for 66 runs in a first-class match during the 1921 tour of England, and hence titled his 1958 autobiography
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In 2010/11, England won the Ashes series in Australia for the first time since 1986/87. Alastair Cook made 766 runs in that series.
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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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and illustrated by John Reynolds, it first appeared serially in
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featured a song entitled "1966 and All That" on their debut EP
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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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recorded the song "1956 and All That" for their third album
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In an unconnected area of mathematics (Mathematical Logic),
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3264 and All That: A Second Course in Algebraic Geometry
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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


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
Julius Caesar

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