To return to the original theme of this thread, Simon Parker (who is a second-rate newspaper hack and hardly an authority on Cornish history) calls John Angarrack an "amateur historian" in a way that is unmistakeably designed to be deprecating.
I've read all three of John's books and the only issue with them that I can find is where he says that Dungarth fought against the West Saxons. In fact, there was a period of peace, perhaps an uneasy truce, during his reign as Cornish king, with no record of any conflict. He even seems to have allowed Alfred to enter Cornish territory for a hunting trip.
If that's the only real fault I can find, then John hardly deserves to be talked down by the likes of Parker.
I can see no reference that Simon Parker wrote the article Craig. Are you sure it was he ?
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Extra planes for stranded Britons
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