Not wanting to continue a stale thread, but an unusual agreement had just taken place.
Raggytash ridiculed the idea of believing some unqualified folkie over an historian, which is a point I have been making for years.
(True he directed it at me, but I had not challenged anything by a current historian including the one he quoted.)

Jim, I do not lie. M's book was not relevant and I did not have a copy to quote anyway, but I started quoting her, as you said, when I found all her articles and essays on line (like the FT article you just quoted) which makes her position on what is history and what is myth very clear indeed.

I hope we can discuss this reasonably and stay open.
I am off to the hospital shortly. If this goes before I return later today could someone pm me how it went please?