Evening all.
After some thought, I'm hanging my hat up on this group, which to me has become a glorified 'Guess the Place' forum. A recent comment by the usual 'attack dog', who was deleted from the last forum for the same reason, has taken the wind out of my sails.
I was described by him (in a very garbled forum post) as an obnoxious plagiarising parasite (which if he'd actually bought my book, he'd know is very far from the truth) So in essence, time to do the off, and put up research where it is more appreciated, or just publish it as intended. Not going through this baiting/trolling thing from a flag-waving Neanderthal who's concept of history probably involves talking about the good old days in the British Legion. The effort of visiting places, interviewing people, going through thousands of old documents/maps etc isn't appreciated by some, it would appear. No apology was forthcoming, and no doubt ever even considered.
I will delete my posts as soon as I've worked out how to. Thanks to various people in here, who have been helpful. Sadly not enough though.
Best of luck to Stuart in particular, for having to deal with this rowdy crowd, and I hope sincerely that more decent people join the place. Particularly historians, despite how unwelcome they are made to feel at times.
Best of luck all.