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Thread #23445   Message #261105
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
19-Jul-00 - 06:34 PM
Thread Name: Distortion of History in Folk Song
Subject: RE: Distortion of History in Folk Song
McGrath - sorry, I'm a supporter of the Yorkist household. Richard III has been portrayed as a child murderer for no other reason than Thomas More painted him so.

If Salman Rushdie deserves anything it is for writing the dreadful 'naughty but nice' campaign for cream cakes, rather than a badly written, boring book about devilish poetry.

LTS