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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Do the British police use racial profiling in their stopping and searching of young men?
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Who invents things, who copies inventions and who neither invents nor is capable of copying
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Should ethnic minorities in Britain be given preferential treatment with the Covid-19 vaccine?
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The Reverend Jarel Robinson-Brown suggests that Captain Tom Moore was a British nationalist
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Is the NHS failing people from ethnic minorities through ’structural racism’?
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More people have died in Britain in 2020 than in any year since 1918
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Increasing ethnic diversity at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale
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The BBC mislead people about organ transplants for ethnic minorities