History is history. You can't rewrite it. wars are in the main fought by desperate people.

There was a war.

The traddies against the contemporaries. the traddies won. In doing that, they killed off most of the folk music clubs in England. Most English people don't want anything to do with their own folksongs, given the traddie way of presenting it.

Other people might give it a different slant, but thats what most of us who were there, saw happening.

History gets written by the winners. You won't find many people in whats left of the folk club movement that aren't happy it turned out the way it did. A nice little club for people who don't want to be confused with Barry Manilow fans.

The winners did what they had to, to win.

There should be a statute of limitations - particularly for people who were very sincere and contributed much in the way of creativity.