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 is a tongue-in-cheek reworking of the history of England. Written by W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman and illustrated by John Reynolds, it first appeared serially in Punch magazine, and was published in book form by Methuen & Co. Ltd. in 1930. Setting and background Raphael Samuel saw 1066 and All That as a product of the post-First World War debunking of British greatness, very much in the tradition of Eminent Victorians (1918): as he put it, "that much underrated anti-imperialist tract 1066 and All That punctured the more bombastic claims of drum-and-trumpet history". Both the Tory view of a 'great man' history, and the liberal pieties of Whig history are undermined in the work, in the (then contemporary) style of such serious historians as Namier and
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, Comprising All the Parts You Can Remember, Incluyendo 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates es un reworking en lenguaje de la historia de Inglaterra. Escrito por W. C. Sellar y R. J. Yeatman e ilustrado por John Reynolds, apareció por primera vez en serie en la revista Punch, y fue publicado en forma de libro por Methuen & Co. Ltd. en 1930. Setting and background Raphael Samuel saw 1066 and All That as a product of the post-First World War debunking of British greatness, very much in the tradition of Eminent Victorians (1918): as he put it, "that much underrated anti-imperialist tract 1066 and All That punctuated the more bombastic claims of drum-and-trumpet history". Both the Tory view of a 'great' history, and the piety of the Eminent Victorians are under the history and then in the serious work of Whig