So you don't actually know Macmillan's methodology Keith.

Nor do I care.
There is no greater authority on the period in the world!
Why should I doubt a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, where she is Warden of St Antony's College. She is former provost of Trinity College Oxford, and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson University.


She has been researching the period for decades, and her findings are confirmed by all the others, e.g.
" A series of retrospective myths have built up that suggest ordinary British and Irish people backed the war because they were deluded, brainwashed and naïvely duped into supporting the conflict. My research shows that this was simply not the case."
Dr. Catriona Pennel
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_219199_en.html