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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Why on earth should ethnicity and race be at the centre of Britain’s Covid-19 Inquiry?
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How the British government manipulated social media to suppress opposition to its COVID-19 policies
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The plain, clear and obvious difference between human ethnicity and the idea of separate races
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Is there a hierarchy of races, with one at the top which is superior to all the others?
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The benefits of anti-racism are elusive and it is possible that it causes more harm than good
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Proof positive that Britain has no intention of deporting failed asylum-seekers or anybody else
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The return of facemasks to Britain for the ‘Arcturus’ variant of COVID-19
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Drag Queen Story Hour performers are anxious about doing their thing in front of children
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The BBC tries to persuade us that black women are dying in childbirth due to racism. This is untrue.
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The grooming scandal; is it true that the majority of offenders are of white, British heritage?
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New research suggests that masks did little to halt the spread of Covid-19
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How Scottish is Humza Yousaf? Christianity in Britain is being rapidly eclipsed
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How black people in Britain can flourish and avoid being the victims of systemic racism
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Should there be any restrictions upon what may be said about ethnicity and race in Britain?
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#CovidIsNotOver was trending on Twitter yesterday; why some folk miss the pandemic
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Boris Johnson obviously was not worried about Covid-19, despite the dire warnings we received
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What is the Torah and is it true that the Talmud really condones the abuse of children?