The gripe in the UK is that in schools nowadays they are only teaching "Modern History" and not bothering about anything much before the 20th century. Basically that means that people who are the age of Ardiva, Sambucus, myself, Quest and even Bryster are now "historical" characters......sobering thought that, what!

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."