Welcome!
I am Professor Julian Syngen-Smythe, renowned historian and writer of such history-packed books as The Renaissance: A Heck of a Lot of Drawings, How The Great Plague Was Not Really All That Great and Henry VIII - The Fuck King.
My recent work has been in transcribing the fascinating journals of Lord Likely, a Victorian aristocratic adventurer, from the diaries themselves to this here internet.
You can view these fascinating journals by visiting the blog entitled The Astonishing Adventures of Lord Likely, Aristocratic Adventurer. I highly recommend doing so right away. They truly are an astonishing read.
This blog you are reading now will focus on the trials and tribulations of transferring these great works to the internet, alongside some thorough academic study of the diaries' content.
It was be enormously interesting, even if I do say so myself.
I hope you enjoy your visit, and do not be afraid to leave me a comment or two to encourage further discussion about the enigmatic Lord Likely.
Good day.
- Prof. Julian Syngen-Smythe.
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Ha! I see you are now purveying your fraudulent and quite ludicrous theories via the internet, Professor Syngen-Smythe.
Not content with wasting acres of space in academic journals, and parading your pseudo-historical theories on the bookshelves of university libraries up and down the land, you now seek to persuade a new generation of students about the supposed existence of your Lord Likely.
Sir, history will expose you as a cad and a bounder.
As you well know, when the University of Wisconsin chemically analysed the paper on which these supposed 'journals' were written, it was found to date from 1943, and in fact can be traced to a job lot of notepaper sold as Army Surplus by the British Government sometime in the early 1950's. To a stationery supplier not too many miles from the school which you were at that very time attending.
While we must admire the fertility of your teenage mind at such a young age, the fact that you continue to peddle these fictitious accounts as history should be a source of shame and humiliation for you.
I have no doubt that it is only a matter of time before The Sunday Times will be seeking to fill your palm with silver, so that they can exclusively serialise these shoddy records.
Well, I have news for you: you will be exposed, for I shall not rest until the world knows about your tawdry fabrications.
You say you seek, through these online pages, 'further discussion'.
Well, bring it on, you old fraud!
Know now that Dr Reginald Wabb-Nasperton is your nemesis.
You are a blaggard!
RW-N
PS
(Was that alright, Julian? I know you said 'have a go at me and provoke a bit of controversy', but one never knows quite how far to take it. Are we still OK for that weekend in Hove, by the way? I've told Doris I'm going fishing.)
How dare you, Dr. Reginald Wabb-Nasperton! You have spouted forth nothing but wicked untruths and facetious lies upon my person, and I shall see that you are struck from the Association of History Lovers for this, mark my words.
This i not over, 'doctor'. Not by a long shot. I will GET YOU.
- Julian.
(PS: Yes, that was fine, thank you. Lovely stuff. See you in Hove, then! Looking forward to it. All the best to you and Doris!)
Gentlemen! This public tiff between yourselves has gone on quite long enough. I fear your increasingly churlish behaviour may cast a long shadow over the academic discipline of which we all share a commom membership.
Such actions can only bring into disrepute our valiant attempts to sex up the dusty and drab corners of the library that have hitherto been reserved for matters pertaining to history.
If, between you, the two of you cannot agree to differ, then I am afraid I shall have no compunction but to withdraw your membership from our august and esteemed Guiild.
Yours in a spirit of fraternal embrace.
Professor Gascoyne Montefiore
Life President, The History Guild
PS
Perhaps I should remind you that, if we were to ban you from membership, you would still be obliged (under the terms of your original agreement with us) to purchase a further three full price books.
I couldn't help but notice the bitterness of this 'discussion'.
Surely the world is too nice a place, full of lovely people who like each other a lot, to waste time in the fruitless pursuit of vendettas of this nature?
Please re-consider your positions, gentlemen. Just be nice to each other!
I can only apologise for this unpleasent exchange of hostilities between myself and Dr. Reginal Wabb-Nasperton.
I have truly disgraced myself, and acted in a manner quite beneath a man of such learning as I. I have been foolish and, I admit, rather childish in my vitriol.
However, I would like to add that Wabb-Nasperton started it.
Furthermore, he smells of poo.
That is all.
- Julian.
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