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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Despite the dramatic scenes of fires on Rhodes, wildfires have for centuries been declining globally
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Free speech for transgender people means that they can, if they wish, incite violence against women
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The Irish government is keen to conceal the true cost of multiculturalism and unlimited immigration
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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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Proof positive that Britain has no intention of deporting failed asylum-seekers or anybody else
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Drag Queen Story Hour performers are anxious about doing their thing in front of children
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The grooming scandal; is it true that the majority of offenders are of white, British heritage?
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What is the Torah and is it true that the Talmud really condones the abuse of children?
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The exhibitionism and fetishism which characterises certain trans ‘women’
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How Ireland’s St Brigid metamorphosed from a slender white maiden, into a morbidly obese African
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The awkward truth about trans-women which nobody seems willing to accept or acknowledge
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Why the threat to Britain from Islamists is far greater than that from right-wing extremists
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There goes the neighbourhood! Ethnically homogenous districts in England are becoming rarer
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Why should we assume that brain function and intelligence are identical in all ethnicities?
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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