 Betjeman brought his bear with him when he went up to university at Oxford in the 1920s, and as a result Archie became the model for Aloysius, Sebastian Flyte's bear in Evelyn Waugh's novel "Brideshead Revisited".In the 1940s, Betjeman also wrote and illustrated a story for his children, entitled "Archie and the Strict Baptists", in which the bear's sojourns at the family's successive homes in Uffington and Farnborough are fictionalised.Archie is here described as a member of the Strict Baptist denomination, riding a hedgehog to chapel, and enjoying amateur archaeology, digging up molehills, "which, he considered, were the graves of baby Druids".