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Sorry Nick: bollocks!
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The legal training is reasserting itself I see.
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The true historian presents the known facts (which are not negotiable)
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So who do you believe about Richard III, Thomas More or Philippa Langley or Alison Weir or … ?
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and the variables for the reader to consider. One doesn't waste time delving into hypotheses.
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Exactly my point. Offering the reader variables to consider is to invite him/her to consider hypotheses.
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Most of what is in my books, for starters, and I'm not being facetious here...
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Yet 30 years ago you wrote a book which you have now rewritten. Was there nothing in the original which subsequent research has led you to change, even though you believed it true at the time?