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2	[[caption-width-right:297:"Honey, your silk stocking's hanging down"]]
3	''1066 and All That'' is TheAbridgedHistory of England by Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman, with illustrations by John Reynolds. The book's lengthy subtitle is ''A Memorable History of England Comprising All the Parts You Can Remember Including One Hundred and Three Good Things, Five Bad Kings, and Two Genuine Dates''. It was first printed in 1931 after being serialized in ''Magazine/{{Punch}}''.
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5	The text covers only the ''memorable'' parts of English history, starting with the memorable Roman Emperor Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain in 55 B.C., one of the only two memorable dates in English History (the other being, of course, ''William the Conqueror, Ten Sixty-six''), and giving special attention to all the Good Things that happened to make England C. of E. and Top Nation.
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7	The book also includes several Test Papers, as well as a few Errata.
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9	Craig Brown of ''Magazine/PrivateEye'' wrote a continuation entitled ''1966 And All That'', written in a careful imitation of the style and going up to the early years of the twenty-first century.
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11	Kate Charlesworth and Marsaili Cameron published a graphic novel alternative version in 1986 entitled ''All That... : The Other Half of History'', that plays off the absence of women from the original.
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14	!!Tropes memorably appearing in English History:
15	* AndThatsTerrible: "King James slobbered at the mouth and had favorites. He was thus a Bad King".
16	* AristocratsAreEvil: Though both Good Kings and Bad Kings are recognized, all Barons in history are wicked, with the sole exception of Simon de Montfort.
17	* BlackAndWhiteMorality: {{Played for laughs}} throughout with kings being divided arbitrarily into Good and Bad kings.
18	* BuriedAlive: {{Implied}} to have happened somehow to Edward I, who "died of suffocation at a place called Burrow-in-the-Sands."
19	* CanisLatinicus: The book describes the cause of Henry I's death as a surfeit of palfreys [[note]]In real life it was a surfeit of lampreys[[/note]]. This is noted on a genealogical chart of kings as "obit surfeiti palfreyorum," or "o.s.p." for short. (Normally, "o.s.p." is an abbreviation for "obit sine prole," meaning having died without issue.)
20	* CompositeCharacter: "The memorable Dutch King Williamanmary." Who is an orange.
21	* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The Order of the Bath "was an extreme form of torture in the Middle Ages."
22	* DeadAllAlong: Queen Anne's reign ended when it was discovered that she had been dead all the time.
23	* DecompositeCharacter: Henry IV, [[Theatre/HenryIV Parts I and II]].
24	* DivineRightOfKings: Parodied. The Divine Right of Kings, as explained by UsefulNotes/CharlesI, said that:
25	-->(a) He was King, and that was right.\
26	(b) Kings were divine, and that was right.\
27	(c) Kings were right, and that was right.\
28	(d) Everything was all right.
29	* DrivenToSuicide: [The Duke of] Clarence [[DrowningMySorrows drowned himself in]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Malmsey]] upon realizing that he was named [[UnfortunateNames Clarence]].
30	%%* FutureImperfect: Parodied. %% Zero Context Example
31	* GeniusBonus: The list of lords murdered by Macbeth includes "[[Theatre/{{Macbeth}} Sleep]]".
32	* KissingTheGround: The first action William I (1066) undertook in conquering England was lying down on the beach where he landed and swallowing two mouthfuls of sand.
33	%%* {{Malaproper}} %% Zero Context Example
34	* NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow: Invoked in regards to Charles I, who "walked and talked Half an hour after his Head was cut off", which seems to say that king paradoxically survived his own decapitation. The implication is that this is a misunderstanding of the more sensible sentence "[Charles I] walked and talked. Half an hour after, his head was cut off."
35	* NoSenseOfHumor: Queen Victoria "remained [[RoyalWe obdurately plural]] and not amused" throughout her reign despite the best efforts of her subjects to amuse her.
36	* OneSteveLimit: {{Averted}}. Cromwell is not to be confused with Cromwell, and Walpole is not to be confused with Walpole.
37	* PunctuationChangesTheMeaning: One chapter draws attention to the classic sentence, "Charles the First walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off", pointing out how memorable that would be. The sentence should go, "Charles the First walked and talked; half an hour after, his head was cut off."
38	* RunningGag:
39	** Kings dying after a surfeit of something, finally ending with a king dying from "a surfeit of surfeits"
40	** Warning the reader not to confuse two different historical figures (King Alfred and King Arthur, Robert Bruce and William Wallace, Lamnel Simkin and Percy Warmneck), [[HypocriticalHumor then promptly doing so]].
41	* SandInMyEyes: Cardinal Wolsey fell from grace since he "although (as is well known) he had not thought to shed a tear about all this, did ultimately shed a memorable one."
42	* SarcasmMode: When it comes to things being done romantically.
43	* ThemeNaming: The Anglo-Saxon wave of Egg-kings.
44	* TooCoolToLive: Henry V. Mary, Queen of Scots, on the other hand, is too romantic to live. [[invoked]]
45	* UnderdogsNeverLose: The English become used to winning battles against long odds, to the point of losing some battles where they outnumber the enemy.
46	-->'''On Bannockburn:''' Accustomed to fight against heavy odds the English were uneasy, and when the Scots were unexpectedly reinforced by a large body of butlers with camp stools the English soldiers mistook them for a fresh army of Englishmen and retreated in disgust.
47	* ViewersAreGeniuses: If you're not familiar with English history (and the way it was typically taught at the time), most of the jokes won't make any sense to you.
48	* WhiteMansBurden: During a wave of Justifiable Wars with China, Burma, Abyssinia, etc., "Spheres of Interference were discovered: these were necessary in all Countries inhabited by their own natives."
49	* WrittenByTheWinners: "Broody Mary's reign was, however, a Bad Thing, since England is bound to be C. of E., so all the executions were wasted."

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