Steve, on another thread, Musket called Hislop an historian, and Scottish bloke described him a someone who had read a bit about WW1.

He has been responsible for a number of documentaries on WW1 doing most of the research himself.
Did you not see The Wipers Times?
That was all his.
Even so, I would not have brought him into this debate.
That was your mates.

Paxman was mainly just the presenter on his programmes. The History Dept. of the Open University did all the History.
The message was that the war was necessary for Britain, the people supported it and the army achieved great things.
Just what Hislop and I have been saying.
Hardly surprising.
That is the history.