DR Alf Peacock fails to admit that he deliberately tried to mislead historians by reviewing (and praising) his own books on George Hudson under a bogus name (Letters, March 19).
Cheap shots at my credentials as a historian (I studied the subject at Oxford University) and the time in which it took me to write my book The Railway King (two years) cannot disguise the simple fact that Dr Peacock used a pseudonym to promote his work on George Hudson.
Had an academic at Oxford or Cambridge perpetrated such a fraud his job would have been on the line.
Robert Beaumont,
Minskip,
near Boroughbridge,
York.
Updated: 10:57 Tuesday, April 02, 2002
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