No words are needed, I think! Except to say that I doubt if Starkey and Schama ever see themselves in this light!
The new titans of Bosworth….?
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Viscountessw, oh my, I watched this epic battle twice and the only thing these two academic ‘titans’ got wrong is NOT that King Schama was running away to the food trolley but the too-clever types forgot the sneak attack coming from a dastardly grad student lurking from behind that food truck, springing into action with a tasty baguette to bring down upon unsuspecting King Schama – and thus – on one knee – present the winning baguette (sadly somewhat flattened now) to new King Starkey to wear, much like a drooping … pizza?
(Thank you for this very informative piece V, it’s improved my appreciation of both ‘scholars’ immeasurably!)
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