Terry Deary, famous for his Horrible Histories series, lambasted Glasgow-born Harvard lecturer and TV historian Niall Ferguson as “deeply offensive” and claimed that all historians just wanted to make a name for themselves.
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Horrible attack launched on historian
Historians have been branded seedy and devious by the author of a best-selling range of children’s history books.
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