"Noticing some fair-haired children in the slave market one morning, Pope Gregory, the memorable pope, said (in Latin), 'What are those?' and on being told that they were Angels, made the memorable joke – ' Non Angli, sed Angeli ' (' not Angels, but Anglicans ') and commanded one of his saints called St Augustine to go and convert the rest."
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1066 and All That
1898 – 1951
1066 and All That was a hugely successful parody of school history textbooks first published serially in Punch but later in book form in 1930 by Methuen Publishing Ltd. The authors were W. C. Sellar (1898–1951) and R. J. Yeatman (1897–1968), who met while at Oriel College, Oxford after the First World War.
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