1966 and All That
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0340897112 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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'Everybody agrees that Craig Brown is our greatest parodist, but his brilliance goes beyond that' - Sunday Telegraph 'The wittiest writer in Britain today.' - Stephen Fry 'Craig Brown's humour will outlive his victims His journalism is one of the compensations for being British now.' - David Sexton, Sunday Telegraph 'Outstanding, endlessly inventive and irresistible.' - Lynne Truss 'Brilliant' - Julie Birchill
Martyn Lovell said A worthy successor to the original. My [British] school history class was punctuated at the end of every term with a reading from the classic Sellar and Yeatman history-education satire "1066 and all that". As well as providing welcome relief from actual history, it served the more serious purpose to remind us that history is not primarily about memorising dates and listing truly /memorable/ peo. A disappointment, I'm afraid A successful sequel to "1066 and All That" is probably too much to ask, and this book doesn't deliver. While the earlier book has a natural flow and feel as it mangles historical names and events, this book always feels self-conscious as it reaches to get every name wrong. While casual misremembrance of names and facts works for a book about events of centurie
He was the only person to appear in both lists. Craig Brown was recently named one of the 50 funniest people in Britain by The Observer and one of the 50 wisest people in Britain by Saga magazine. His writings for Private Eye, the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Telegraph have won numerous awards. . Craig Brown is the author of The Marsh Mar
75 years on from the first publication of 1066 and All That, Craig Brown takes over where Sellars and Yeatman left off. With all the zest and exuberance of the original, 1966 and All That takes us on a half-remembered journey of imperial decline, loss of moustaches, The Sewers Crisis, angry young men, slightly cheesed-off young ladies, the onset of rock 'n' roll, the doomed romance of Princess Margaret and Pete Townshend, the decade of the Ironing Lady - and an unstoppable increase in the quantity of Royals. An utterly brilliant follow-up to the humour classic, by Britain's funniest writer. There'll be an exam too, so please pay attention.. 1966 AND ALL THAT - all the modern history you can't remember, narrated in a way you can't begin to understand