I really feel sorry for Tony Robinson and the cast of Time Team. Every week they're on the telly digging up the site of some ancient castle and come up with a load of rubbish. A few coppers that fell out of a centurions mini skirt, a Roman jam jar (cracked), some medieval dogshit. The muck he digs up turns a different colour and he says, this must have been the east wall of a monastery.

Then this woman finds the body of Richard III under a piece of tarmac in Leicester marked R, with her first spadeful. Its obviously like doing the pools - a degree of luck comes into it - and if you ain't got it.....


I agree with GSS. Its only now that Tudor propaganda is coming under the microscope. We all read A Man for All Seasons at School and accepted the version of saintly Thomas More. I think Hillary Mantel's books on Thomas Cromwell have made us all think again. After all, the Tudors did kill a lot of people.