A national museum in England is run by semi-literate people wishing to denigrate Sir Francis Drake
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- The National Maritime Museum in London supposedly celebrates the history of England as a seagoing nation and yet those running it are in the grip of a pernicious ideology which distorts their view of history.
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I will repeat: We have the moral right and duty to resist this spiteful hatred.
Write an email to their director linking the video here. See if you get an answer.
No don’t …. This channel is great and does not need a lot of lefties complaining about it 👍
yes like the burning of Alexandrian library you must collect this knowledge and protect it so that in the future it can be returned to it's rightful place in your nations consciousness
Except that you won’t. You’ll just complain; I’ll do the same. You’d have to be insane to take on a modern security state without a broad military movement like the IRA. Even then most of you would end updoing life in some hole. The battle was lost when we let the Left take education.
@Curtis Loftis You are quite welcome.
The people in charge have no shame, honour, or integrity. I'm glad I'm old and received a balanced education.
I'm old and I still didn't receive a balanced education. It wasn't as silly as it is now but more insidious precisely because the lies weren't as obvious. Then again, I'm American so what do I know of history. Keep up the good fight, the remembering. Love this channel.
Same here, our teachers would turn in their graves if they had any knowledge of what is going on now.
@CZcams Censors Me I agree !
Since change of ownership CZcams has become DownTube.
@@marcbahn5487 The problem is you didn't, you received the education they wanted you to have. You learned nothing about the real world or the motives behind governments. We were spoon fed the idea we were the good guys and everyone else was evil. While we spent our time exploiting and undermining developing nations to our benefit. I am glad the truth is known today and so should you. Its a bit like telling kids the truth about father Christmas. He may have existed but not as we know it.
Yeah being old is a good thing now.
The woke brigade will not be happy until everything British is gone including us !
Especially the people.
Then they will be the only ones left to be stabbed.
If we do become ruled by non white people , this country will be , back in " The Stone Age "
@@therainbowgulag., these woke idiots haven't worked out they will have the same fate !
@@harryworth8157 I don’t no why but there it is.
Wokism leaves a person intellectually crippled and morally debased. Selective use of facts can tell many lies …
To be ignorant is comfortable.
I don't want any more information since it might change my beliefs 🤫
Welcome to todays reality.
@@knutask7493 welcome aboard! 😎
Not just selective use - outright untruths are acceptable nowadays, as long as they support the woke narrative.
Selective use of facts (mostly by the broke Woke) is a hundred times more effective than a blatant lie. Anyway there are no lies any more should just one person say they disagree. Even if it is just an opinion without evidence.
So they're saying Sir Francis Drake is racist. The inspiration for uncharted drake's fortune is now problematic, you English people should stop letting lunatics run your country.
Yes, thank you, whoever you are! Totally agree with you. These idiots have spent all their lives in peace thanks to our ancestors efforts .. and now they spend all their time talking about their ‘feelings’ and telling lies to support their version of reality. For example, there are now (according to the snowflake report) about 20 different sexes!! Anyway, I’m complaining too much. We are not all in favour of this rubbish here!
I Don't think people in the West are LETTING Anything happen. It's being Forced against our will while most of us are working to just Survive.
And they couldn't even praise Drake for using sustainable (and clean) 'wind power' to get to his 'exhibition' .
What Drake took from Spain was probably a great deal of gold, and they in turn had taken it from Central America, melting down gold artwork which they had looted. I wonder if in Spain they constantly self-flagellate for the sins of their ancestors who built a huge empire with much death and destruction involved. What about the French and the Portuguese? It seems only the British committed historical crimes which must be talked about non-stop.
You are right lunatics this country would be nothing without the likes of Drake and others they were real men fought for what they believe in not like today where no one dear say anything because it might affend
*_”Semi-literate”_* surely you mean vibrant, diverse and inclusive?
He was being charitable
Don’t let them tell you its WHITE PRIVILEGE. From a concerned content creator.
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😂 well said! … thanks for making me laugh. I was getting angry and depressed at the actions of these snowflakes who are ‘influencing’ our kids now.
@@gudgengrebe We need to get out there IRL and gradually without aggressively pushing our own politics, just calmly seek out the likeminded and disenfranchised. Nationally such people will always be in the low percentile and yet in terms of actual numbers, there are many.
As well as being vibrant, diverse and inclusive, these people are trainee doctors and scientists. Each and every single one of them!! How can these people possibly be historians as well??
All achievements, these days are an embarrassment unless you're chucking a statue in the canal
The sad thing is, those statues created in the past were actually beautifully made. Nowadays they are being replaced by statues and ‘works of art’ that look like something a child in junior school would make. That stupid statue of ‘Diana’ for example … that was a pathetic attempt at sculpture. There are many other examples … maybe this nonsense is a result of too much time spent indoors, brushing their hair and debating what to pierce next.
@@gudgengrebe This is very true. I can't remember a modern statue in the last 20 to 30 years looking anything like the person it is meant to portray.
@@johnturner1073 NFL hall of fame busts are spot on. Same guy makes em all. Blair Buswell, True artist.
@@illbyno1 OK, not seen any of them, just going on the appalling images created in the UK.
@@johnturner1073 true, the george floyd one didn't portray his true personality
When I visited last year the museum had an exhibition exploring the vital role of the LGBTQ in Britain's maritime history. It was cringe and appalling.
Was Roger the cabin boy from captain pugwash there?
🤮
@@britpackdog4545 no, but seaman Staines came.
Really? Like what ?? What did the LGBTQ achieve in those days?? They weren’t even a ‘thing’ then.
As ballast?
It won't be long before they claim that Drake was an exhibitionist.
He did get around in tights.
Chortle.
He was, wasn't he? It says so in the museum...
I’m laughing at their ignorance but shocked by it too.
Can you imagine the uproar from the same people who are distorting our history if there was a plaque on the statue of Mandela giving ten facts one saying "He was a terrorist"....
Mandela was actually trained in guerrilla warfare and carried out acts of sabotage as part of the Miltant ANC.
You tend not to worry about distorting someone else’s history when you have nothing but disdain for it.
Could you give an example?
@@georgehetty7857 the history of the Boers of South Africa. The so-called "Afrikaners" have been slowly rewriting and appropriating our history for the last century, in an effort to assimilate us.
The current "government" has also been trying to rewrite the history of all white South Africans, to turn us in to villains that "stole their lands and oppressed and murdered" them. My grandfather always said that we made a mistake, when we migrated into the interior of Southern Africa, to have kept the bible under the arm and the rifle in the wagon chest, he said we should have done it the other way around, like the Americans did.
When they call Drake a pirate, don’t they mean “privateer”, a totally different kettle of fish. You would think a “museum” would know the difference!🥺. Just like the BBC, which used to be admired throughout the world for its unbiased, truthful reporting, museums and historical foundations seem to be increasingly becoming conveyors of propaganda and agendas rather than purveyors of historical facts.😔
Some BBC documentaries from the 1980:s is still around.
They are somehow more honest than the newer ones 🤔
Ironically, he was considered a privateer by the British and a pirate by the enemies of the British. So not a lot has changed.
Facts are not a WOKE, BAME thing .Only white haters at this party.
@@deathdeathington "Now take Sir Francis Drake. The Spanish all despise him. But to the British, he's a hero, and they idolize him." Tim Curry as Long John Silver: czcams.com/video/j1l7N-WLa3Q/video.html
How many ears did Francis Drake have? Three - a left ear, a right ear and a privateer.
"Museums are not unbiased, impartial or neutral, and have been dominated by those with power and wealth. We will strive to tell histories more fully, recognising different perspectives and working with stakeholders to be honest about the past" From the Royal Museums Greenwich website.
In other words they are more than happy to distort historical fact to suit their narrative.
"Working with stakeholders"? What precisely does this gobbledegook mean. Is this some kind of racial slur. Surely not.
More like "working with Skateboarders to be honest with the past".
The same people that are pushing for this are also pushing for a holocaust memorial outside parliament - as if we are also responsible for it.
Weasel words
That is the real motive to destroy our history and cultures with their modern bs.
Drake was never a pirate.
Drake was a privateer. Completely different.
... but he (probably) did use Napster to download Fleetwood Mac's Landslide.
Exactly. It allowed the sovereign, plausible deniability. This guy gives historical information piecemeal and in poor context. It's not the first time he's done it. Nor will it be the last I'm sure. This crap only works on those devoid of intellectual curiosity.
El Drako - he’s a national legend, an icon! He’s still a bogie-man for Spanish children today - beware El Drako lol... Without him we’d be speaking French or Spanish, for sure...
A privateer is a pirate under license of the crown so a legal pirate and no different besides protected by the law rather than wanted by it,....what makes a criminal? Non payment of Tax does.
@@natrelacoustix - Sure he’s not perfect, but in five minutes he does a better job than the National Maritime Museum. If you’re so brilliant, why don’t you start your own channel to defend western culture? See how quickly we all laugh at you.
“Blacken the names”. Careful laddy, you’re verging on a criminal act !
Golly gosh!
It's not "we" who run our heroes down Simon, it's "they" who are given free rein by the traitors in positions of political and cultural power in our midst.
Sadly these traitors will be voted for time and time again at elections. DO NOT vote for the LIB LAB CON
Sadly, the onanists are now in charge....
Seems like the museum have made rather an embarrassing expedition of themselves...
Most won’t get it Jeff
It's not an (unchecked) typo either, it's simply poor English.
Maritime museum is now “hosted by it’s own retards”
@@simondjangothe4349 Sorry.... shouldn't it be Hoisted rather than hosted? ;-)
@@peacemaker6662 not sure how to respond to this as I sense that we probably sing from the same hymn sheet, so peace and best wishes Mr P.
This is outrageous, Drake is one of our navel heroes, as you said he saved England from the Spanish Armada.
Actually, it was more of a series of gales that stopped the Armada from succeeding, but even so, Drake was a man to be admired for his expolits, not denigrated.
@@christopherfitzgerald774 so basically you are saying God intervened.
@@suziecreamcheese211 Don't be ridiculous.
@@suziecreamcheese211 Show me the part where Christopher said this please.
What's a "navel hero"?
It seems that in the name of diversity and inclusion we promote people that despise and dislike the British people, its history and culture, to positions where they can re-write British history, replete with their own prejudices and bias.
I wouldn't mind quite so much if they were otherwise fitted for the job. As seen here, often their only qualification seems to be their ignorance and prejudice.
Our enemies called drake a pirate, I see they’re still doing it.
Right but the problem is that today aren't out but internal ones (and these are the more dangerous)
Elizabeth I was one of this nations greatest monarchs, and Drake one of her champions. Both heroes, we must never forget that.
Seeing that she supported and financed English colonial expansion its quite obvious that she too was racist. Its a logical conclusion. Just a prediction of what may be next.
@@phillrob5964 I am so glad that you are here to clear things up! Maybe I will supply a drawing for you next time.
@@gumnut6922 Thanks a lot. Your drawings are bound to be clearer than your incoherent writing…
@@phillrob5964 That's is if can get you to stop eating the crayons.
@@phillrob5964
That went right over your head...
Interesting to note how those who want to attack our history concentrate so heavily on the parts of Britain which played an active part in stopping slavery such as our naval might. One would be forgiven for thinking these are the descendants of the slavers, still bitter at having their livelihoods stopped.
I had not looked at it this way.
The next time one of the intellectual lefty ejits I work mention the slave trade and our part in it I'll ask them if that's why they hate the country so much.
I think you're onto something, particularly as the owners of the slave ships weren't really English in the main. but members of another ethnic group which has always operated high levels of self-interest and therefore obviously still deeply resents the moral stance the English took against their interests.
And we only finished paying of the debt for ending the slave trade a few years ago.
@@ric6383 Indeed. The final payment was made in 2015. That means every British taxpayer until then had paid for the greatest moral campaign in history. We owe nobody anything.
@@MaHa-vm6up Also ask them what part do they think the African Slave traders themselves had to do with the Slave trade ? No one seems to ask this Question ! Because these people seem so one sided in there thinking they cannot see or realize that the A/ Traders themselves were the one who brought about the slave trade of there own people and people of surrounding areas, they were the ones that went inland from the coast to capture these slaves ! Not the White Europeans ! Or the English / UK people’s ! In reality the slaving of Africa was going on in Pre and Biblical times ? So how do they explain this ?!
And I bet he didn’t have 50% women on his ships, either: the bounder.
A total cad was Sir Francis Drake. I'm willing to wager he didn't have any trans people either, especially 4 year old Scottish ones. Therefore the man's name should be erased from British history (which it probably will be within the next 20 years!)
@@Walesktf If you were to stop 100 random people on the streets of London - how many would recognise the name Sir Francis Drake? Or Nelson or Wellington for that matter ...
@@mark314158 you’d have to find 100 that could speak English first
@@mark314158 50 probably unable to speak English.
Women? With this political climate it's a miracle if some politicians will ask to cover themselves for not offense someone (really happened in a Dutch city, but didn't end well for the culprit)
Wow, my little town has a tiny maritime museum ran by volunteers. At least it's factual and the volunteers can speak and write English.
It’s really sad that in a country founded by the English, one of the criteria of helping run a museum is that you’d have to be able to speak and write English. Shouldn’t that be an unspoken rule?
@@yoyokanamihue6183 One of the "criterias"? You apparently can't speak or write English!
@@Tourist1967 Considering that English is my second language and I speak 4 languages I think I’m doing better. But thanks for the criticism. I know you’re mocking me BUT I’d rather take it as criticism 😚. I’ll change it.
@@yoyokanamihue6183 Well said.
@@yoyokanamihue6183. I also speak 4 languages and often make a mistake. You ought not to change anything merely to please a clod who has made three errors in his/her own comment.
In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated.
Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with a college degree.
Thomas Sewell.
I think you mean Sowell.
@@54356776 obviously
A high achiever like Drake holds up a mirror to us. To some he is an inspiration. To others his success shows how little worth they have and it's easier to denigrate a hero than to improve oneself.
He was also a slave trader and that is not admirable in my book.
@@watfordgap6737 : No he wasn’t
@@howardjones7370 he was
@@watfordgap6737 : I think that gap has shifted from Watford, to between your ears! He wasn’t, in fact he was quite the opposite, and was noted for releasing the slaves he found on seized vessels, particularly around the Caribbean
Hero? P-ha! Pirates aren't heroes. To Spain he was a loser who followed Spanish pioneers since Spaniards went around the world first. The English were cowards who didn't cross the Atlantic until learning of the Spanish discovery of the Bahamas and beyond. Here is a video proving that Spaniards discovered Hawaii first among Europeans:
"Spanish Discovery of Hawaii 1555 - Spanish Gallons
"
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Good lord! I can run the damn museum and I have great love for the maritime history of the UK. I love the British, why hire people who hate the history and want to subvert it.
I would do it for free everyday, if I had a chance. 🇬🇧
@The English Loyalist
I’ve every confidence in you my friend.
Your application would go straight in the bin. They are not going to relinquish the narrative.
@@yiabwstetienne7474 even for a very rare minority ? 😂
If only! However, I suspect you are too white and you don’t follow the subscribed narrative so you have no chance. They’d rather pay for someone to lie than let the truth be told for free.
@@23Revan84 Not....
Just.....
Yet
The rot has set in, I think I’d like to hazard a guess as to the ethnicity of the author of the article you narrated from.
We are a dying breed . Patriotism is being dissolved . When people do not believe in their country they will do nothing for the greater good.
Hence a fragmented , selfish and broken society . Morally bankrupt and plundered by the victims it tries so hard to protect .
Rather like a Victorian father , beating his own children to show the neighbours what a great man he is!!!
The rot set in a long, long time ago. In the summer of 1975, when I was 17 and in between year 1 and year 2 of my A' levels, I stayed with my widowed grandmother for several weeks, helping her in the garden and just keeping her company. We talked a lot about her childhood in Edwardian England and also the two world wars (she lost close relatives in both). In the evenings, I read a lot of history books. One night I went to bed and cried for hours because I suddenly realised my country was in terminal decline and that, even then in the mid-seventies, we lived in what had already become a selfish and broken society. My later experiences at university did nothing to change this view. Yes, the Marxists who have taken over our institutions are more powerful now and able to be more open in their hatred of our country, so doing a lot more damage, but those Marxists have been building up to this since the Second World War.
Only if you let it. I correct them whenever I can. This is my culture, my history and I’m not allowing these gits to bastardised my heritage.
@@cherryseptember8697 I agree but the defining difference is we now have self interested, psychotic , narcissistic megalomaniacs at the helm rather than warped idealists .
The country is being asset stripped and sold off to the highest bidder. RIP UK 🇬🇧
@@captainplatinum I'm afraid that you are completely right about our "leaders", the politicians from all parties and those who manage the big corporations or head our public services and councils. They love the power they have over us and use it to their own advantage. This has become increasingly apparent over Covid and the tyranny they are forcing on us. But what are we to do? I am not ready to accept the death of my country yet. We can fight back.
@@cherryseptember8697 everything is a controlling tool to beat the masses.
It is evident that governments no longer run the shop
. Big corporations now set the tone and dictate the pace .
Governments manage land masses within borders , big companies rule the entire world and government follow along . Appeased by shiny things and the promise of jam tomorrow.
The entire system is rotten to the core .
Global warming?
That’s next beating stick . Even if it is man made , it’s not the individuals but the big corporations that plundered and profited from the planets resources .
I never mined anything, started deforestation or filled up the oceans with plastic ,
big companies did , governments allowed it,
now the man in the street has to pay the price to correct the disaster they profited from.
Again the man in the street picks up the tab , while they run away with the loot and benefit from the next hair-brained scheme they implement to control us .
They keep us divided , while we squabble over petty differences , they keep our eyes off the ball and sail into the sunset .
I think we now see the wizard behind the curtain .
And there is nothing we can do about it!!
Voting is as useless as carrying a banner and shouting in the street .
I hazard a guess that the author of the piece on the museum's website says "Arks" instead of "Ask" and "Pacific" instead of "Specific".
Dawn Butler still does it.....just to wind us up I’m sure- can’t be that thik!
And couldn't of done better.
At my old school, in the 1970's, pupils were placed into 4 houses- Nelson,Drake,Montgomery and Churchill.
At a reunion a few years ago we learned that the houses have been renamed :- Mandela,Martin Luther King,Seacole and Jesse Owens.
There were no objections because this reflects the ethnicity of 90% of the pupils and staff in Haringey,North London.
Enoch would be turning in his grave.
@seanniee137 Bizarrely, on June 6 this year, the BBC more than once made reference to the men and WOMEN who fought on the Normandy beaches on D-day. More rewriting of history by the national broadcaster.
@seanniee137 More like, "when did the BBC worry about truth?"
That's truly appalling.
He warned us over 50 yrs ago what would happen & was ostracised for it!!!😣😎😠😡😟
As the old saying goes, you reap what you sow!!!😤😧😥😢
@@keithdukes5990 Enoch was far from being alone in his predictions.Most working class people were very unhappy about the numbers being allowed in,and were concerned about the impact on our NHS,housing stock and schools. The upper classes,who could afford private health care and to send their offspring to Public schools weren't bothered.The middle class weren't affected either, as very few immigrants would become accountants or solicitors.
I wonder how things will be in 50 years when we are the minority
I expect the museums will have been converted into mosques by that time and all the artifacts destroyed, like the Taliban do.
50, more like 20 if we're lucky.
July 16 622 will be the most important year in British history, if we didn't change the christian era altogether.
50 years? We'll be lucky, at this rate!
The Platonists didn't finish the job when they went after the Sophists...we're paying for it now.
I've sat on the wall that Raleigh sat on in Budleigh Salterton in the painting. Next they'll say he didn't invent the chopper
I had to read that twice.....
I loved the Chopper with the racing handlebars.... bugger to ride though ;-)
Magna Carta , did she die in vain?
I thought Drake was a "privateer" one of many to which Queen Elizabeth issued letters of marque.
Spellcheckers and grammar checkers in software help illiterate people seem literate, but they have their limitations, and one needs least a _little_ literacy and diligence if one wishes to ensure their limitations don't expose the embarrassing truth.
Ablotessamly right!!
Yes, I wish the GPs at my local surgery knew the difference between "then" and "than" and could use the apostrophe s appropriately. I cringe whenever I get a letter from them.
Perhaps if in schools reinstates writing & grammar excercises, now it seems that knowing how to write is useless
It's very rare to find Africans, Arabs or South Asians visiting these museums. None were at the Portsmouth Victory museum either. On another note any idea Simon how we can start repatriating the non-indigenous?
remove the 1951 convention from english law
I would definitely go and I am Navajo.
This propaganda is directed at young British people, not foreigners. If they were made to feel less comfortable perhaps they'd leave.
@@23Revan84 I know you would. You may have Navajo blood but you have an English heart.
On a tangent, yesterday I read Orwell's essay, "England, Your England", 1941.
Recommended.
We have enough enemies already…. It’s a tragedy we are becoming our own enemy… becoming weak, vulnerable.. we will reunite in the POW camps.
Excellent video Simon, but content very depressing. This will all end in the demise of Great Britain😬
But they are the right color or perversion and that is more important
An astute observation.
Next …. The D-Day landings will be depicted as an INCIDENT! 😬😬😬
It has already started. On June 6 this year, the BBC more than once made reference to the men and WOMEN who fought on the Normandy beaches on D-day. More rewriting of history by the national broadcaster.
No, not at all. it will be depicted as an invasion of France by the USA forces containing mostly black and ethnics, to get rid of Hitler. Great Britain and other white European countries will hardly be mentioned. Wait until Hollywood produces a blockbuster, showing this
@@johnturner1073 incredible John😵💫😵💫😵💫
@@Walesktf it wouldn’t surprise me😵💫😵💫😵💫
only semi literate? I think you're being generous there
yes
Too generous by half.
'Blacken the name' ! Surely that's a phrase you can't use nowadays. Although in a sense in today's parlance it is true.
I remember "The Adventures of Sir Francis Drake" television series when I was a child. Imagine tv executives of today having enough respect for the intelligence of children to give them interesting historical drama, as opposed to the offensively trivial, and incorrect, horrible histories.
Such programmes inspired me to read proper history. Which may be why they don't make tv like that these days.
That series has recently been repeated on TPTV ♥
I've been watching the series on Talking Pictures tv over recent months (channel 81 Freeview). It was a little before my childhood years, so am watching now I'm getting close to my second childhood in old age! The swashbuckling Terence Morgan as El Drako and the beautiful, smouldering Jean Kent as Queen Elizabeth. Gripping stories and feats of daring-do, with all the intrigue and politics of the Queen's court and her inner circle. Educational as well as great fun. The episodes often portray Drake as an opportunist Privateer, even if not always with the Queen's blessing. But she is always delighted and seduced when presented with Drake's plundered spoils, even if she expressly forbid his expedition to pillage Spanish booty. It is a nuanced and balanced portrayal of Drake in many ways - but even so it would never be made today.
Impossible, with all this inclusivity there would be no enough places on the Golden Hinde to accomodate all the people needed by SJW.
P.s. I liked very much that serie , it was entartaining, sadly a lot of these serials were replaced in our national TV by a lot of intellectuals'works (Brecht & similar), until the TV was reformed and arrived the privates
@@alessiodecarolis Yes, today the Golden Hinde would need a diversity manager, an equal opportunities monitoring officer, and a mental health counsellor as a bare minimum before it was awarded a seafaring licence!
@@Iceni007 naturally, when at sea they'll found that... they forgot the! master at arms! 😜😁☹️
Exhibition? Oh dear, pretty much says it all really
Perhaps written by an exhibitionist ?
Posting early today Mr Webb. Surely you jest... no mention of Drake defeating the Armada and singeing the king of Spain's beard! Never been to the Maritime Museum, but if they're that incompetent, is it worth it. Just one more reason to show utter contempt for anyone in positions of authority these days.
I visited Greenwich Maritime Museum about 5 years ago. Found the experience very disappointing. I remember a room containing Slave Trade artifacts.
Cutty Sark was well worth visiting though.
Where did the Spanish find the gold? Under a bush?
Good point. All that gold from South America.
Was going to post something similar.
The laziness and ignorance of employees in just about every sphere today is exasperating and extremely frustrating.
"Other countries venerate their heroes, we run them down."
It's much easier to be against something, to tear down - than it is to build up.
Hate and sloth = tear down what is, rather than work to build.
I recently visited my local museum, Preston museum and there was a bloody exhibit for NHS doctors and nurses.
Don't mind so long as the truth and history is accurate.
The NHS was saved by the brave men and women who built and launched a boat (the SS Ganja) from the West Indies on an exhibition to introduce penicillin and KFC to our wretched country. We still benefit to this day with the arrival of daily boatloads of doctors, engineers and scientists all committed to saving us from ourselves.
@@simondjangothe4349 Take a look at the statistics on NHS staff in the UK. I do hope, when you are stricken by a heart attack, cancer or some other life-threatening condition, you stick to your principles and refuse treatment from a doctor from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana et al. Got to stand firm, haven't we?
@@Tourist1967 Don’t put words in my mouth HealthTourist. You take the time to look at some statistics regarding complaints and lawsuits against nhs staff trained outside the uk. My post was intended as a joke but woke-lefties are known to lack humour. Let me explain the joke (I’m not sure if you’re ‘special’), History is being re-written by people with a specific agenda, I made a ridiculous and exaggerated statement to emphasise the point raised in the initial post by Conor. The uk has unfortunately chosen to import health workers from outside the uk to cope with the mass immigration which has been deviously foisted upon us by our elected government without our consent. Is there a surplus of health workers where our imports come from or are they fleeing shitholes where their skills are probably desperately needed by their former compatriots.
Yes, standing firmer now than ever before. I’m up for this.
An ancestor of mine was with Drake at Cadiz.
"Devon O Devon, in wind and rain!"
I think it is about time I got on the bandwagon and become one of the great offended. I intend to email the museum in question and express my offence at the denigration of our national hero. If perhaps other offended people were to do this they might rethink their propaganda.
Your probably be dismissed as an ignorant white supremacist.
Great article. Good that you're bringing this nonsense to light.
We could do with another Drake to save us from our current invasion!
I first visited the National Maritime Museum in the mid 1990's and it was still a traditional museum with a whole room dedicated to Captain Cook and his voyages and all the other exhibits were traditionally displayed and labeled clearly with descriptions.
I visited again about 2009 to find everything ripped out and modernized completely changed.
The Cook display now only covered a third of it's previous material in a larger hall, a large room had a display telling everyone how bad we were for the slave trade and how it was our fault etc. It all had a dumbed down theme park feel to it.
One of the things I liked about arriving at Greenwich by boat was how it hadn't changed by the look of it since Georgian times but since my first visit it has been totally modernized and completely modernised and paved changing it's character forever.
This seems to have happened to other museums and attractions as well. History being rewritten and changed or like in schools not taught as in previous generations.
Always be a hero to me.
" Thomas Cochrane" Now he was a swashbuckling hero that your kids never heard of, Read the tales of his exploits, have a laugh and be amazed. Make good bedtime stories for your boys.
He was an absolute beast - ‘Lucky’ Jack Aubrey of the Master & Commander film was inspired by Cochrane...
Algeciras!
Just read the "Hornblower" books for that character was loosely based on Thomas Cochrane
Check out Sean Thomas Russell’s books , Capt Charles Hayden is more suited to the master and commander character !
I'm sure he was far from perfect and lived in a time with many different sensibilities to us, but lets have balanced and actual facts about a man pivotal in English history.
Precisely. Everything must be judged in it’s historical context. Desperately trying to retrofit the past with today’s so-called “values” is always a mistake.
Unbelievable how low London has fallen
what a great message again.....we must fight this constant downgrading of our history and our heroes !!!!
Drake was a privateer not a pirate. Not that pirates aren't cool
Yes, there is a difference and I am surprised that the National Maritime Museum, of all places, does not know this!
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb Given all this tosh, i doubt they knew or cared.
Someone on here called them the cultural taliban. I think we all should refer to them as such.
I fear for all the newer generations.
I am keeping all my old history books (in which I instilled in my daughter a love of history and a respect for our culture and heritage) so that if I ever have a grandchild, I can tell them stories of long ago...
You should because if you look like your picture you are the real target.
This standard of scholarship appears to be from David Olusoga OBE, one of Britain's best historians.
😂😂 Did you not mean distortionist
HAW,HAW,HAW.
So museums are no longer centres of education or learning...oh well good while it lasted.
It is time that we removed those in charge of the museums and install people who are proud of British achievements to run them. I trust that you have responded to this museums website Simon and told them the truth.
“Never let the truth get in the way” must be their motto. 🤷♀️
Sir Francis Drake was not actually a pirate but rather a privateer. What's the difference between a pirate and a privateer? A privateer attacks merchant ships and steals their cargo exactly like a pirate does, except that a privateer does so with the permission of his government and in turn he hands over a percentage of the booty to his government.
Like Blackbeard 👍
Ah.. Drakes famous exhibition. Wasn't that when he took his "pog" collection around the world to show off?
It's saddening that the state of written English related to a place of learning has slipped so low. Its really inexcusable.
I'm old enough to remember the Halfpenny, (Pre decimal currency), which depicted Drake's ship, 'The Golden Hind' on the back. His achievements were thus celebrated.
They did this at a local museum and all the placards have "lies" carved in the placards frames and wall around the displays.
We saw group of arab like kids being led around Manchester science museum with teacher.
I said to friend i hope the teacher is pointing out that whilst their grandparents were tending camels in a desert, Brit. grandparents were building satellites, computers, rockets and super sonic jet planes.
I’m guessing this will be done in every aspect of British history. It’s sure going to get educational.
The problem with the UK the ruling clash and so enlighted people have sold us out
One of many examples. What I find so insidious is when immigrant minorities become a majority within local council service sectors and bring to the role the values of the countries/communities they have fled to come to England. Which does not benefit Britain 🇬🇧
Visited four years ago, the ship simulator was out of action but enormous effort had been put into denigrating the British with reference to India.
A waste of time and frankly shocked at what a dump Greenwich has regressed into...
Watch it, Mr Webb. That was almost cause for a ban. "Blacken the names of anybody in high regard" could be misconstrued as a racist slur.
Hello again! Two museums in one day? Good on you and keep up the good work. Made it to Bournemouth on the tandem!
Another great blog , thanks 4 your time to educate the masses
This bull came about about a year ago. There was a BBC documentary that said Drake's defeat of the Spanish Armada never happened. So, in the care home I work in, there's a lady who was a history professor of one of the Oxford Colleges. When I mentioned this to her, she said "I don't think that's right". In fact this lady finds most of the sh*te that we here of now, eg Rhodes statue situation, or the Coronavir*s situation is me making this stuff up. I despair.
If they keep telling the kids they are evil, telling the kids they are cruel and come from a wicked bloodline and are capable of nothing but savagery, eventually those children will believe them and begin to torture and kill them, living up to their supposed heritage.
Do you have no insight at all, Sir? None?
I went to the Barbican in Plymouth. I imagined Sir Francis Drake walking on the cobbles there. It was wonderful to think the history was still there.
Our enemy within is hard at work lying about our history and culture.
I wonder if any of these museums mention the origins of the US Marine Corps?
The USMC was established specifically to counter the Muslim slave trade in the Mediterranean.
In fact, these origins are celebrated in the Marine Corps anthem: "From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli...."
I have been waiting for the inevitable when the Corps anthem is declared as "racist" and the references to the Muslim slave trade are deleted.
AH, the old leathernecks.
More to come. Not so long ago, the National Maritime Museum announced that it was asking Woke Queen Lucy Worsley to 're-assess' Horatio Nelson. That, I assume, will not end well. At least, not for Nelson.
No doubt she will do it in fancy dress. All these so-called presenters and TV reporters just love raiding the props department at every opportunity. Look at that prat reporting from Afghanistan for Sky. He looks like an extra from Lawrence of Arabia...
@@johnturner1073 I particularly enjoyed her comments about Waterloo, claiming that Wellington 'stole' the battle by claiming it to have been a British victory, when it was a Prussian one, and insisting that it be called 'Waterloo.'
The facts are this it was an 'Allied' victory. Wellington only fought where he did precisely because he knew Blucher was marching to support him. As to the name, that was simply because Wellington's report, the famous 'Waterloo Dispatch,' was written from his headquarters at Waterloo. The British press used the name, and, at least in the English speaking world, the name stuck.
Actually, the Dispatch was fulsome in the credit Wellington gave to Blucher.
Still, Lucy could always wear a 95th Rifles uniform and wave a Baker rifle around to contradict these inconvenient facts. Poor Horatio. By the time she has finished with you, Vlad the Impaler will look like a nice chap.
The Spanish Armada was scattered and dispersed by the wind, but in the mythic version found in British history books it is the larger-than -life figure of Francis Drake to whom credit is given for this natural event.
Simon Webb
Some FACTS we like and some FACTS we don’t. Last time I checked though, they were still FACTS!
Stock up on antiquarian books for your grandchildren, don't bother with modern books.
Have done 😁
@@grannyannie6744 🙂👍
This can only happen if you allow it.
I spent a lot of time there a 8 years ago when I was doing research. The vast majority of the academic staff were okay, but there were a few regressive khunts. I can imagine that the vast majority of academics working there today are regressive khunts.
The sad truth is we will have to 'burn' it all down ourselves before they get their hands on it.
Simon relax we have new hero’s like umbabano unfurl she worked in a school canteen for 20 years well here about her in black history month so it’s all fair really xx
Mary Seacole exhibit in and Florence Nightingale's out!
here we go again had enough. Cant even enjoy my later years in life , with this shite. Please no one come near me in doing my daily chores . Just give up smoking , its not going to be good
We should call them out at every opportunity. Never let them rest. We should also start creating and supporting celebratory events for our heroes.
I didn't know Drake led "exhibitions" against the Spanish ...what kind, I wonder?
Does this make Drake one of England's first Exhibitionists? Fascinating.
Meanwhile in this small town in Poland where I teach we have "Sikorski" Street, ""Pilsudski Street, "Pope Paul II" Street, and a host of others named after Polish national heroes and events. There is also razor wire on the border fences in case anyone fancies trying to get into the country illegally. I wonder if there are lessons here?
My biggest recollections of Sir Francis Drake were his continuation of a game of bowls when the Armada was approaching and the covering of a puddle with his cloak for Queen Elizabeth to pass. They may not be much, but they imply a tactician and loyalist. A stark contrast to those now running the museum.
Actually the cloak/puddle story was Raleigh, I believe.
@@jeffjeffreym1830 Whoops. A royal fuckup on my part, methinks lol
Which ones wife had his head pickled ? I'm double guessing now
They won't be running the museum, that takes actual work and some academic prowess, they will be brought in as 'diversity consultants' and paid a three figure sum for 2 days a week.
@@grannyannie6744 That's got to be Raleigh...he was beheaded.
Great stuff Simon, keep it up please!!
As I was born and raised in Tavistock the birth place of Drake. I have always held him as a true hero. Unfortunately today even my old school are talking about removing his name from the school house groups. I myself was in the house group Drake A. And and still regard Drake as a Hero.
"Who controls the past, controls the future... who controls the present, controls the past" - George Orwell