You highlight the difference between mine and yours.

That really takes the biscuit. My historian is bigger than yours. :-D Well, my Dad's a policeman so nya, nya nya, nya. Do you accept that they are indeed historians though and that they are alive? That is all you asked for isn't it?

He is not the kind of proper historian whose work you can see at a library or book shop. Huh? Who are you trying to kid here?

Neil Faulkner in a bookshop