| − | Its impact since 1930 has been enormous. It has been a successful stage show, and has also been serialised on radio; its title has passed into the language as a phrase in its own right. Sellar and Yeatman were aiming to produce a work far more complex than just a parody of history, however - they were mocking the simplistic and didactic manner in which English history was then taught to children. The title is drawn from the general observation that for all the emphasis on memorizing dates that made up so much of history teaching, few people remembered more than two: 1066 and 55 BC. (and the day and month of the [[Gunpowder Plot]], "''though not, of course, the year''").<ref>'''Sellar, Yeatman,''' op cit.</ref> | + | Its impact since 1930 has been enormous. It has been a successful stage show, and has also been serialized on radio; its title has passed into the language as a phrase in its own right. Sellar and Yeatman were aiming to produce a work far more complex than just a parody of history, however - they were mocking the simplistic and didactic manner in which English history was then taught to children. The title is drawn from the general observation that for all the emphasis on memorizing dates that made up so much of history teaching, few people remembered more than two: 1066 and 55 BC. (and the day and month of the [[Gunpowder Plot]], "''though not, of course, the year''").<ref>'''Sellar, Yeatman,''' op cit.</ref> |