A song by the BBC pushing the narrative that Britain has always been ethnically diverse has gone viral, with social media users interrogating its accuracy and the agenda behind it.
“Please lend me your ears for this news I shall impart, you may not have been told, we’ve been here from the start,” the Horrible Histories song begins, showing a black singer dressed as a Stone Age Briton and a Roman centurion claiming that “before these isles were British, black people played their part.”
Cheddar Man, a prehistoric man whose body was discovered in 1903, is alleged in the video to have been a black man, as is the Roman emperor Septimus Severus.
While the media pushed the idea that Cheddar Man was dark-skinned – though also light-eyed and not a sub-Saharan African – following a DNA test in 2018, it was quietly admitted that testing could not prove his skin color, partly because the DNA had degraded over its 10,000 years in Cheddar Gorge.
Similarly, Emperor Severus – an invader in the British Isles, dying in York after falling ill during a military campaign in Caledonia – was not a sub-Saharan African, being born in Roman North Africa to an Italian mother and a father descended from the Phonecians (a Semitic people related to the Jews and Arabs).
As recently as 1939, the ethnic minority population in Britain was just 7,000. It had risen to 50,000 by 1951, as populations became more mobile following the Second World War, but white Britons retained a majority of 99.9 percent.
Only in the modern era of mass migration has a substantial non-European population emerged in Britain, with white Britons now being a minority in London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Leicester.
Horrible Histories has been pushing a factually inaccurate, woke version of history on children for well over a decade, describing the Crusades – a defensive reaction to Islamic armies conquering the Christian Near East and besieging Constantinople – as “a time when the Christian people of Europe decided to go to war with the Islamic people in the Middle East just because they didn’t believe in the same things,” for example.
Every Briton who watches live television, even if none of it is BBC content, is required to fund the broadcaster by paying a television licence fee, or else face criminal fines backed by imprisonment for non-payment.
