Correct Keith. No "single" historian at all.

An amalgamation of consensus coupled with historical fact and present day evidence.

The sanitisation of military incompetence, political blunder and callous indifference to those in your charge are there, as an elephant in The Litte Englander's room. No amount of scoffing or treating opinion as fact can alter that.

Guest- Whilst I accept that church attendance was dwindling slightly in Edwardian times, the rise of many alternatives at that time reinforces my view that the default position was to do as you were told. Clergy were, as ever, good recruiting sergeants.