For all too many people, history consists of no more than a set of familiar and well-worn stories such as the incompetence of First World War British generals, the heroic struggle of the suffragettes and the saintly devotion to duty of Florence Nightingale. We seldom stop to ask ourselves if Florence Nightingale actually saved any lives or whether the suffragettes hindered or helped women to gain the vote. In this channel, Simon Webb, author of many books of popular history, examines some of our favorite historical characters and incidents, looking at the truth behind the myths. We learn, for example, that Magna Carta has nothing to do with habeus corpus or the so-called 'British Values' and that slavers from Africa were raiding England at least half a century before the English began taking slaves from Africa. This channel is for anybody who has ever questioned the stories which they learned during history lessons at school.
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Britain’s epidemic of knife crime; what is the common factor in almost all recent cases?
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The connection between Chris Kaba and Stephen Lawrence; the ambition to be an architect
5:16
Another member of Stephen Lawrence’s family joins his mother and hops aboard the gravy train
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Why are people adversely affected by the Covid vaccine being forced off social media?
4:46
The racism of many black people towards those of Asian ancestry, shown clearly in Peckham
4:56
How offering asylum in Britain is harming the prospects of our own children and grandchildren
7:11
The latest Covid variant is more likely to infect those people who have been vaccinated…
2:14
The public face of Covid in Britain gets a well-paid job with a company making Covid vaccines
5:45
Vaccines are being developed against ‘Disease X’, even though nobody knows what it is yet…
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Floella Benjamin tells some fairy tales about the so-called ‘Windrush Generation’
5:11
Despite the dramatic scenes of fires on Rhodes, wildfires have for centuries been declining globally
4:00
Excess deaths in Britain are now running at a greater rate than during the COVID-19 epidemic
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The COVID-19 cover-up; Boris Johnson and the government refuse to comply with the High Court ruling
2:45
Free speech for transgender people means that they can, if they wish, incite violence against women
2:03
Who is the BBC presenter? A neat distraction from the government’s actions in the COVID-19 enquiry
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Victorian race science is revived in Ireland as justification for a wave of immigration from Africa
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The Irish government is keen to conceal the true cost of multiculturalism and unlimited immigration
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COVID-19 and ethnicity; the strange and jumbled thought-processes of anti-racists
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Why on earth should ethnicity and race be at the centre of Britain’s Covid-19 Inquiry?