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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Floella Benjamin tells some fairy tales about the so-called ‘Windrush Generation’
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A snapshot of London today, as the principles of Critical Race Theory are put into practice
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Why black people sometimes have trouble with the police; is this always due to racism?
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The dark side of the trans movement; people who have their legs amputated, in the name of 'identity'
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Why is Africa so poor and the educational systems there not as good as in Europe or Asia?
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The calls for a ceasefire in the Middle East are quite irrational and border on sheer madness
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The reason that immigration is now running at 750 thousand a year; three times the level in 2019
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How Scottish is Humza Yousaf? Christianity in Britain is being rapidly eclipsed
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The myth of needing immigration to Britain to care for an ‘aging population’ is exploded
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Guess the ethnicity; the differing nature of offences committed in Britain by minorities.
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Those who denounce scientific racism never seem capable of rational and coherent argument
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Excess deaths in Britain are now running at a greater rate than during the COVID-19 epidemic