The book is parody of the style of history teaching in English schools at the time, in particular of Our Island Storys It purports to contain "all the History you can remember'' , and, in sixty-two chapters, covers the history of England from Roman Times through 1066  "and all that", up to the end of World War I, at which time "America was thus clearly Top Nation, and history came to a .". The book is full of examples of half-remembered and mixed-up facts.
