I was recently sent a lengthy - but eye-opening - essay by the “Hidden History” scholars, Jim Macgregor and Gerry Docherty, regarding the weapon of “Fake History” and also detailing the hiding and/or destruction of vast quantities of files pertaining to the World Wars and other conflicts, esp by Britain and America.

[ viz George Orwell : “Who controls the past controls the future …… The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”]

It’s well worth a read (later - grab a cuppa!)***

Like me, you may be outraged, but not really surprised (and as a Baby Boomer, I was fed a steady diet of WWII propaganda via British and American films/movies and also stories of the greatness and goodness of our glorious British Empire!)

Sadly, the oftimes morally bankrupt actions and views of some bureaucrats, politicians, media moghuls, aristocracy, clergy, even academics and scientists, et al, have shown that they cannot be trusted to present an accurate recording of our history.

So (getting back to the Thread’s original purpose), I have no problem considering as valid, the viewpoint of “the man in the street” or one “working at the coalface” – e.g. the ballad writer and the “folk” singer - and the stories of Joe the shepherd, having a bevvy down the pub.

Class and education – and manners – do not maketh the man. Upper class villains are still villains. And they fully understand that the Truth will not set them free!

Cheers,
R-J (Down Under)

*** http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48862.htm

PS        Hope the glam and glitz and the gush of the Royal Wedding between Britain and America is keeping you preoccupied. Anything to stop you thinking and questioning further. :))
[ “Glamour” a variant of Scottish gramarye "magic, enchantment, spell” ]