5/12/2023 0 Comments Rj yeatman![]() ![]() ![]() But their other major contribution to public education at the time – And Now All This (1932) – has been largely forgotten. In 1934, 1066 and All That was made into a popular musical, and by 1936, a fellow humorist, Eric Partridge, could note that ‘Sellar and Yeatman’ had already become shorthand for their most famous work. 16).Īfter this debut, there was a boom in Sellar and Yeatman. Morton – and then, at the start of the next decade, 1066 and All That (1930), the incomparable comic history book by W. Wodehouse, the plays of Noël Coward, the Beachcomber columns of J. There was also a boom in humour: the Jeeves novels of P. The 1920s, wrote Rose Macaulay in Life among the English (1942), her potted history of English social life, was a decade of booms: ‘There were booms in photography, Sunday film and theatre clubs, surrealism, steel furniture, faintly obscure poetry, Proust, James Joyce, dancing, rink skating, large paintings on walls of rooms.’ ![]()
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