He successfully distanced himself in the post-war period from his earlier political affiliations, but a short passage in his successful and frequently reprinted book "The Plantagenets" (originally published 1948), in which he gave credence to stories of Jewish ritual murder, and praised the "statesmanship" of Edward I in expelling the Jews from England in 1290, continued to cause offence. He refused to amend the passage, and the publishers (Fontana) eventually allowed the book to go out of print in the mid-1980s.