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 lockdowns, social distancing and other measures to combat Covid-19 might have killed millions
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Guess the ethnicity of the men involved in a brawl in Selfridges, the famous London department store
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The COVID-19 cover-up; Boris Johnson and the government refuse to comply with the High Court ruling
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Was the Covid crisis in Britain in 2020/2021 really the worst epidemic in living memory?
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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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The 2021 Census figures for ethnicity show that white British people are a dwindling group
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Putting a mouse in charge efforts to rid the house of an infestation of mice
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Are differences in IQ levels between populations significant?
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The public face of Covid in Britain gets a well-paid job with a company making Covid vaccines
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COVID-19 and ethnicity; the strange and jumbled thought-processes of anti-racists
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How can Britain deal with illegal immigration if the courts keep blocking the way for deportations?
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Is there a hierarchy of races, with one at the top which is superior to all the others?