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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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1066 and all that
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, A Memorable History of England (1930) Humorous classic by two schoolmasters, Walter Sellar (1898–1951) and Robert Yeatman (1898–1968), making splendid nonsense of the teaching and examining of English history. Typical is the explanation of why *Julius Caesar so easily defeated the ancient Britons; hearing him declare *Veni, vidi, vici they lost heart, for they were still using the old Latin pronunciation and thought that he had judged them to be 'weeny, weedy and weaky'.
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