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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Should a British Member of Parliament be suspended for talking about the Covid vaccine?
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How the town of Reading came to symbolise all the ills attendant on immigration to Britain.
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The connection between Chris Kaba and Stephen Lawrence; the ambition to be an architect
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Racism in NHS cancer treatment; the Guardian newspaper attempts to deceive and mislead its readers
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Britain’s epidemic of knife crime; what is the common factor in almost all recent cases?
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Immigration to Britain; why are so many people from Africa desperately keen to come to this country?
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How the perspective of Covid has altered dramatically in a few months
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Another new virus appears in Britain; time to reach for the vaccines. Again.
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The Reverend Jarel Robinson-Brown suggests that Captain Tom Moore was a British nationalist
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A new Sainsbury’s advertisement and more about Netflix’ latest series, Bridgerton
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The one question which may never be asked; is intelligence heritable, like height?
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How some offences between ethnic groups are treated more leniently than others
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Victorian race science is revived in Ireland as justification for a wave of immigration from Africa
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Calling a man a woman, or a cat, does not make it so… #NotOurCrimes