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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How the measures adopted to combat Covid created a disaster for public health
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Why do black people not celebrate their own literature and history, rather than copying others?
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The problem with black schoolchildren in Britain who do not, ‘see themselves represented’
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Should it bother anybody in Britain that 90% of our new barristers are from China and India?
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How white supremacy culture allegedly prevents children from learning mathematics at school
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The dark side of the trans movement; people who have their legs amputated, in the name of 'identity'
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A black, Caribbean nation which has been self-governing for over two hundred years
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More misleading nonsense about racism from the BBC; who now openly admit to lying about race
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Three different ethnic groups at British schools and how they get on, academically and socially
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Of dogs and men; all domestic dogs, just like all humans, belong to a single species
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What are the chances of that? Ethnicity and certain types of criminal offences
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Illegal immigration and a possible link with epidemics of infectious diseases in Britain
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The epidemics of scarlet fever and Strep A; their possible connection to the Covid lockdowns
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‘Where are you really from?’ Willesden, rather than Africa, and my name is really Marlene Headley…
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The coincidence of the Covid-19 epidemic in Britain and the sudden, massive rise in immigration