LYNN PICKNETT and CLIVE PRINCE

 

Lynn Picknett, formerly Deputy Editor of the seminal 1980s partwork The Unexplained, was a journalist and broadcaster. Clive Prince worked for a major national charity. Then, in 1989, everything changed. They met and discovered they shared a passion for 'alternative' history, beginning to work together as full-time writers, producing Turin Shroud: In Whose Image? (The Leonardo theory); The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardian of the True Identity of Christ (the secret Church of John the Baptist); The Stargate Conspiracy (the disturbing history of the New Age) and - diversifying into 'straight' history - co-authoring Double Standards The Rudolf Hess Cover-Up with Stephen Prior and Robert Brydon, in 2001.

While still writing history books, they also intend to return to biblical revelations, secret societies and all the usual suspects in the near future…

LECTURE

REWRITING RUDOLF:

DEMONSTRATING THE CRYING NEED FOR ALTERNATIVE HISTORY

The Rudolf Hess story is the perfect example of the crying need for 'alternative historians', bloody minded researchers who never believe a word of official stories and do their own delving, be it about ancient Egypt or Winston Churchill's wartime exploits. If the truth is out there, mainstream historians may well be the last to find it.

In 1941 Hitler's Deputy Rudolf Hess flew to Scotland on a doomed peace mission and almost immediately disappeared into official obscurity, emerging only to be tried and condemned to life imprisonment at Nuremberg. To most people then, and indeed most people now, the official version - that he went mad, stole a plane and set off to enemy territory without Hitler's knowledge to meet up with a non-existent British peace party - is nothing more or less than the simple truth. Yet, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince will demonstrate that not only is the official line the complete opposite of what really happened, but that the Hess mission was one of the most pivotal events of the 20th century - highly significant because it obscures the truth about the British establishment and the what was really happening during the war. What now masquerades as history is very largely still old wartime propaganda. It seems that manipulating the facts was not merely a Soviet obsession.

Lynn and Clive's research on this subject eventually became their book Double Standards (produced together with co-author Stephen Prior and historical researcher Robert Brydon), but their talk will include new material, such as Hess's link to Rosslyn Chapel and the truth about Otto Rahn's search for the Holy Grail at Montsegur.

 

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