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Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman were British humourists who wrote for Punch, and are best known for their book 1066 and All That.
1066 and All That is a work of tongue in cheek cod history by W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman. It... history you can remember", and covers the history of Britain, from Roman times up to the end of World War I, at which time "America became Top Nation", and thus there was no more history to record...
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, 1066 and All That (1930) by W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, which speaks of rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things, and has since become a mainstream idiom in the United Kingdom. The phrase is... A Bad Thing , written with capital letters for added emphasis (and with the words similarly...
. Milne, Anthony Powell, W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, Thackeray; John Tenniel was a regular political... Punch , or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine founded in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and... 'cartoon' to refer to a comic satirical drawing. The magazine was intended to be humorous and satirical...