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 come there is no modern research about race and intelligence?
4:16
Guess the ethnicity of the men involved in a brawl in Selfridges, the famous London department store
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The exhibitionism and fetishism which characterises certain trans ‘women’
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Should race be ‘at the core’ of Britain’s enquiry into the Covid epidemic?
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Bird flu, the next pandemic which will change our lives even more than COVID-19
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The reality of race, which nobody today wishes to acknowledge at any cost
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The World Health Organisation abandons attempts to find out the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic
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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 next pandemic is ready to roll and the mRNA vaccines are already in the pipeline
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Vitamin D and its effect on people with, or at risk of, COVID-19
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The awkward truth about trans-women which nobody seems willing to accept or acknowledge
4:03
Why the threat to Britain from Islamists is far greater than that from right-wing extremists
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How lockdowns, social distancing and other measures to combat Covid-19 might have killed millions
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What exciting new mRNA vaccines does Moderna have in store for us this year?
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Why should we assume that brain function and intelligence are identical in all ethnicities?
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There goes the neighbourhood! Ethnically homogenous districts in England are becoming rarer
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Should a British Member of Parliament be suspended for talking about the Covid vaccine?
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How Covid caused an exponential increase in information gathered about our day to day lives
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The return of Covid travel restrictions; a warning sign that we should not ignore.