Ī biography of R J Yeatman, written by his son Bill Yeatman, is available at Bibliography Īll of the following books were co-authored with W. Afterwards he was employed as a copywriter, retiring in 1962. Yeatman rejoined the army in 1940, serving as a captain in the Royal Artillery, then working for the Ministry of Information from 1943 until 1949. Three further joint ventures with Sellar followed: And Now All This (1932), Horse Nonsense (1933), and Garden Rubbish (1936), all selling well but without the popular success of 1066.

With ambitions to be a writer, Yeatman contributed humorous pieces to Punch from 1926, with 1066 and All That published in 1930, which was an immediate success. When asked to convert his BA from Oxford into an MA, Yeatman could not find the fee owing to debt, and hence he is recorded in 1066 and All That as 'Failed M.A., etc. Yeatman then worked as a journalist before becoming advertising manager for Kodak Ltd. After the war he attended Oriel College, Oxford, where he met Sellar.

Serving in France, he won the Military Cross and was severely wounded. Still the most perfect satire on that pompous view of English history espoused by our current PM. In World War I he was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery. 1066 and All That by WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman. From 1911 he was educated at Marlborough College. He spent some of his early years in Oporto, the principal city and port of northern Portugal, where his father worked as a port wine merchant, a family business connected with Taylor's Port. He is best known for the book 1066 and All That, a tongue-in-cheek guide to 'all the history you can remember', which he wrote with W. Robert Julian Yeatman (15 July 1897 – 13 July 1968) was a British humourist who wrote for Punch.

1066 and All That by W.C. Sellar