Richard found the courage to start writing at 66 years of age. For 13 years, he was increasingly forced into 'living in his head' by the progressive disabling of his body by Motor Neurone Disease. The upside of this was the time to indulge his love of British History and historical fiction. His very ordinary life as a UK citizen of entirely English stock has been characterised by his dissent from the established versions of the history he taught and the views and attitudes he has been expected to promote as a white middle-class male of a certain age.
I should say how proud I am of myself, my origins, my existence as a White, Anglo-Saxon, English, British, Christian, Anglican middle-class male of a certain age… but I cannot.This book is a journey into my past, Britain’s past, by someone—me—who is profoundly uncomfortable with it and with ...
The author asks you: Is this a story of the longest standing oppression in the history of humanity?…thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. – Genesis 3:16 – c. 1600 BCE.…the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior… – Aristotle – c. 340 BCE.…even t...
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