Has anyone read the book 'The Holy Kingdom' by Adrian Gilbert?

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Subtitle: The quest for the real King Arthur.

Lots of discussion about King Arthur was not just a legend, but a real man who was quite threatening to the advancing "alternative history" being pushed by the Romans and the Brits who loved them. Together, they basically squashed the Welsh culture and the Welsh language, nearly dead, is finally being resurrected today. The two archeologists the author works with are both Welsh and were able to quite easily get local families to pull ancient books of the lineage and history of the kings at the time out of hiding.

They feel they have found the real burial site of King Arthur (not at Glastonbury) and have discussed a number of items relating to the start of Christianity being well entrenched on the island long before the first failed invasion of Julius Caeser.

What I see in every chapter is how the "conquerors rewrite the history" and how they have taken a version of the truth and made it into what we learn in the history books today in school. I see many similarlities with what is happening in this administration.

It's also interesting to note how Christianity initially spread through the island with the arrival of Joseph of Arimathea (St. Illid in Welsh) and not the ham-handed, "I'll kill you if you don't convert" method that came about with the Romans and their alliance with the London monarchy of the time.