Posted by Peter Hyland on April 23, 1999 at 13:00:09:
In Reply to: Re: Englishness...relevance? posted by Tim Johns on April 23, 1999 at 11:20:23:
Well done, Tim, for ferreting out the Ransomeish folk songs. The whole point surely is that AR died in the 1960s - '67 was it? The question of what is or is not 'English' now, in 1999, is irrelevant. You finish with a good question! I'd like to answer it, but I'm afraid Ian would have this correspondence off the web in a flash. As it is, we'd better look out for a gale-force bluster from the Midlands tonight!