well its interesting certainly where it all comes from. you seem to hinting at some sort of conspiracy to make it seem older than it is.

i suppose it matters for historians, but lets face it, the history we learn in school is such a load of bollocks and self advertisement for the politicians and monarchs that its very hard to know what the truth is. probably we'd be better off not knowing any of it.

Take all those Irish threads where Keith and Divis Sweeney used to get steamed up. Ninety per cent of that was all about Keith couldn't get his head round that fact that the English weren't 'decent sort of fellows' in everybody's book!

I'm not sure why you think anyone would be deliberately trying to mislead us all.