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[quote=Guinness;1006796]Ah..but someone spent a great deal of effort making that bat and ball, and others want to play with them without letting him participate. The owner is proud of his shiny bat and ball, doesn't mind sharing but, flat out refuses to just mark the scoreboard whilst the others get all the undeserved Glory.
I've slightly altered your post to bring it more in line with what appears to me to be going on.
From what I've learned so far about that meeting & some of those present, they are glory hunters, legends in their own minds, "couldn't have done it without me types". I've had dealings with them before.

Could some one please explain why I should spend 1000's of hours researching, 100's of quids on computers & accessories, 100's of pounds travelling round the country, to various libraries & records offices, then just hand it free to self serving glory hunters.
Those who pretend to be experts, who just parrot Bills books on the Pals, add embellishments, and fool folk into thinking they know it all.

Bill & I have had to put up with them for years, and I'm not prepared to cooperate with them to the extent of handing over all this work.

I've been to Pen & Swords the publishers of Bills Books, they tell me my work is unsaleable, they would need to sell a minimum of 300 copies to break even, and 400 pages of mainly family history & pictures of the men who fought & died while serving in the 11th East Lancs (Accrington Pals), won't sell enough copies.

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