History Debunked
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.- 4:06
- 15 сағат бұрын
In what tangible ways has immigration and the resulting diversity improved life in Britain?
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The political violence and religious squabbles of India and Pakistan are now part of Britain’s life
- 3:52
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The favourite drink of Labour’s candidate for Clacton is, it seems, the tears of white people…
- 4:17
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Why 50% of Disney films must now have gay characters or racial minorities in important roles
- 6:08
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How important is that a firefighter attending a fire in your home should be black, gay or female?
- 4:56
- 4 сағат бұрын
A man who sums up all that is wrong about modern, British politics
- 8:39
- 4 сағат бұрын
What is wrong with masculinity, and why is it always preceded these days by the word ‘toxic’?
- 6:25
- 7 сағат бұрын
We accept literally anything, however mad, as long as it is in the cause of diversity and inclusion
- 5:02
- 7 сағат бұрын
Keir Starmer said 18 months ago that he prefers WEF meetings at Davos to the Westminster parliament
- 5:47
- 7 сағат бұрын
Should it be illegal to talk about the Kalergi Plan or the Great Replacement Theory?
- 5:56
- 9 сағат бұрын
How many black people were really living in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
- 2:31
- 9 сағат бұрын
Was Enoch Powell’s prediction in 1968 accurate?
- 7:45
- 12 сағат бұрын
On growing old
- 6:07
- 12 сағат бұрын
Are academic examinations in Britain institutionally racist and a legacy of colonialism?
- 5:07
- 12 сағат бұрын
Does Keir Starmer keep his wife locked in the attic, like the mad woman in Jane Eyre?
- 3:07
- 14 сағат бұрын
Rishi Sunak complains that the D Day commemorations made him late for a television interview…
- 5:33
- 14 сағат бұрын
The British Labour Party now despises the white, working-class men, who were once its very backbone
- 4:43
- 14 сағат бұрын
The changing paradigm of the representation of black people in films and television dramas
- 4:01
- 16 сағат бұрын
Two convicted 12 year-olds; a racially motivated attack, although the mainstream media won’t say so
- 4:15
- 16 сағат бұрын
Lenny Henry tries to make a commercial decision in broadcasting all about ethnicity and skin colour
- 5:53
- 16 сағат бұрын
If Gaza is indeed, as some assert, a giant concentration camp, then who made it so?
- 6:29
- 19 сағат бұрын
In which I am accused of blacking up!
- 3:46
- 19 сағат бұрын
The unstoppable rise of the right, as shown in the recent elections for the European Parliament
- 5:41
- 19 сағат бұрын
Why living near foreigners can be an undesirable and stressful experience for many people
- 6:40
- 21 сағат бұрын
On the nature of inter-racial relationships in modern Britain and their depiction in the media
- 5:18
- 21 сағат бұрын
A brief history of Gaza
- 6:04
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