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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The Ukrainian refugee scam gathers pace, with Muslims and black Africans at the front if the queue
3:57
The return of facemasks to Britain for the ‘Arcturus’ variant of COVID-19
4:19
News items which tell us at once that foreigners are on the loose…
4:59
Was Enoch Powell right, over fifty years ago, to ask why Britain needed a Race Relations Act?
3:05
Who could have guessed that the ghastly Suella Braverman would be replaced with somebody even worse?
9:08
The BBC tries to persuade us that black women are dying in childbirth due to racism. This is untrue.
4:46
The racism of many black people towards those of Asian ancestry, shown clearly in Peckham
4:37
Proof positive that Britain has no intention of deporting failed asylum-seekers or anybody else
4:26
Were the Covid regulations a practice run by the British state for future repression?
5:53
Why ethnically and religiously homogenous societies are more stable than multicultural ones
3:38
The Cody Fisher case, or how double standards operate in the media where race is concerned
5:05
There goes the neighbourhood! Ethnically homogenous districts in England are becoming rarer
6:02
Why does Britain get lumbered with so many dangerous, mad, useless and undesirable foreigners?
4:20
Jamaica and Singapore followed different paths after independence from Britain
5:46
The problem with black schoolchildren in Britain who do not, ‘see themselves represented’
4:19
How the Big Issue, founded to help homeless people, became a business opportunity for foreigners
6:45
Why ethnicity and race in Europe matter more than ever after the invasion of Ukraine
5:30
The benefits and advantages which African and Caribbean culture have brought to Europe
4:34
The return of Covid travel restrictions; a warning sign that we should not ignore.