A lot of the argument is over when history ended and the modern day began, which is a ludicrous and unanswerable question. A century or a few decades may be recent history, but still history to anyone born after it happened, and to many who weren't. I think Muldoon summed it up correctly.

On another topic that has come up here, I read elsewhere recently that most ihhabitants of the British Isles are mainly of Iberian pre-Celtic descent, i.e. not only not Anglo-Saxon, but not Celtic either. Who knows who is right? I'd wager that we are the sum of all cultures that have passed through, and probably all their genes as well.