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 It aint all that... November 3, 2008
I bought this on recommendation after reading 'The decline and fall of practically everyone'
If you like meaningless drivel then you'll do fine, If however you want some reality to a comedic history book then leave well alone.
It falls badly in the shadow of Cuppy's classic desperately attempting to mimic its strange observations.
A third rate attempt at comedy.
 1065 or what? March 6, 2008
I love this play. I acted it out in 1972 and loved it at Eggars Grammar School, Alton ,Hampshire.
Miss Burt I thank you. You were my inspiration1
Great Historical Humour February 9, 2008
The precursor to the Horrible History series, '1066' has long been a classic. There's nothing much I can add to the other reviews - it's a funny history book.
Oh, and to the person who described it as a bad history book and "wildly inaccurate": You, sir, are an idiot.
Noel and Ellen's Inspiration December 12, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Noel happily made reference to "1066 and All That" on the fly-leaf of his own title. Ellen had never heard of it, and wanted to know why anyone-else would have, either. "It's a classic of the British hunour genre", said Noel. "It's the genre's 'Top Book'! Any British humour writer, with leanings towards history would give Harold II's eye-teeth to be compared with it!" And then it turns out to be its 75th anniversary, and everyone wants to parody it (2066 and All That, 1966 and All That, etc) and be compared with it. Too spooky! Don't you think?
Absolutely Hilarious November 22, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is one of the top comedy books in the world ever and must be read immediately by anyone needing serious cheering up, anyone interested in history, and anyone who needs a good laugh.
The book takes the form of an abridged jaunt through the history of Britain from 1066. It is set out as a school text book, and at the end of every chapter is an exam. The exams for me are the absolute highlight of the book, parodying so well, the exact stupidity of exam questions and the ridiculous language in which they are written.
The theory of the book is that this is history as it is remembered by adults from what they learned as a child, so do not expect to actually gain any historical knowledge from this book at all, and if you've never studied history, then you probably won't find it funny, because it is the school boy errors in this which make it such a delight. My particular favourite is the migration of the Venerable Bede to the Venomous Bead, which makes him sound so much more exciting than he actually is.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
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