Well, that just goes to show the danger of cherrypicking your historian, innit. One other thing. Whilst historians are fully entitled to their "views", for myself I would rather know about their interpretations, which one would hope were predicated on thorough and dispassionate scholarship. That is surely more important than whether they're lefties or middle-class or whatever. And understanding what they say requires a degree of education on our part. I didn't get where I am today by " believing" what authority figures tell me!