Customer Reviews
It aint all that... - By: Snooty_Fox, 03 Nov 2008 
I bought this on recommendation after reading 'The decline & 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 badlyin the shadow of Cuppy's classic desperately attempting to mimic its strange observations.
A third rate attempt at comedy.
1065 or what? - By: T. P. Wikeley, 06 Mar 2008 
I love this play. I acted it outin 1972 & loved it at Eggars Grammar School, Alton ,Hampshire.
Miss Burt I thank you. You were my inspiration1
Great Historical Humour - By: Jenesis, 09 Feb 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, & to the person who described it as a bad history book & "wildly inaccurate": You, sir, are an idiot.
Noel and Ellen's Inspiration - By: Scoby, 12 Dec 2007 Noel happily made reference to "1066 & All That" on the fly-leaf of his own title. Ellen had never heard of it, & 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, & everyone wants to parody it (2066 & All That, 1966 & All That, etc) & be compared with it. Too spooky! Don't you think?
Absolutely Hilarious - By: Mrs. K. A. Wheatley, 22 Nov 2007 This book is one of the top comedy booksin the world ever & must be read immediately by anyone needing serious cheering up, anyone interestedin history, & 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, & 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 & the ridiculous languagein 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, & if you've never studied history, then you probably won't find it funny, because it is the school boy errorsin 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.
