Oh science we have heard of it

[vetran]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ly-Cyprus.html

Plaque honouring the 'first black Briton' is removed after DNA analysis finds she was 'most likely from Cyprus'

• 'First black Briton' plaque for 'Beachy Head Lady' removed as she may be Cypriot

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A plaque honouring the 'first black Briton' has been removed after DNA analysis suggested she was not actually of African origin.

The sign celebrating the 1,800-year-old remains of 'Beachy Head Lady' was taken down after scientific research revealed she was 'most likely from Cyprus'.

The plaque was placed in an east Sussex village by BBC Two as part of their 2016 Black and British series where they billed the woman as the earliest 'black Briton', claiming she was of African origin.

However, subsequent DNA analysis has suggested the BBC programme's claims were wrong, the Telegraph reported.

[northernladuk]

Her bone structure might have been female but how do we know she was a lady? Could end up being a cypriot identifying as a male? Double miss.

[WTFH]

Her bone structure might have been female but how do we know she was a lady? Could end up being a cypriot identifying as a male? Double miss.

Probably came over here in a dinghy too. Been living off benefits for the last 1,800 years. Bet she didn't even have a British passport.

[SueEllen]

Probably came over here in a dinghy too. Been living off benefits for the last 1,800 years. Bet she didn't even have a British passport.

Well she was here before the Romans...

[vetran]

Probably came over here in a dinghy too. Been living off benefits for the last 1,800 years. Bet she didn't even have a British passport.

nah you have to turn up every few weeks to keep the cheques coming.

[JustKeepSwimming]

I don't get this fascination with retcon'ng British history. If you have ancestry is not of these Isles and you're so concerned then you should learn your ancestry, it doesn't make you any less British.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...e-survey-finds

Like this, it's because frankly there are pretty much no notable black people in British history because there were negligible black people in the UK pre-WW2. James Somerset and Olaudah Equiano are probably C listers in historical terms, ie most people wouldn't know who they are nor do their actions really approach 'teach in class' level. As for Mary Seacole, she was a business woman who saw a way to make money. Nothing wrong with that but making her notable as a 'black Florence Nightingale' is just historically repugnant and pure tokenism.

Black British history is 99% WW2 onward, a period which for whatever reason doesn't make the cut for 'history' in the curriculum, least not when I was at school.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Then again:

Stonehenge was built by black Britons, children’s history book claims


Readers of the newly-released book are told that monument was built while Britain was ‘a black country’

By Craig Simpson 18 September 2023 • 10:22pm

The illustrated book by Nigerian-born British author Atinuke, entitled Brilliant Black British History, says that ‘every single British person comes from a migrant’

Stonehenge was built by black Britons, a new children’s history book has claimed.

The illustrated book entitled Brilliant Black British History, by the Nigerian-born British author Atinuke, says “every single British person comes from a migrant” but “the very first Britons were black”.

Readers of the newly-released book are told that Stonehenge was built while Britain was “a black country”.

The book, published by Bloomsbury and promoted by Arts Council-funded literacy charity The Book Trust, states that “Britain was a black country for more than 7,000 years before white people came, and during that time the most famous British monument was built, Stonehenge.”

The introduction says that “Britain has been a mostly white country for a lot less time than it has been a mostly black country”.

Atinuke’s book, for readers aged seven-plus, takes the reader through a chronological overview of black people’s presence in Britain, saying that Cheddar Man, the oldest human remains found in Britain, had skin “as dark as dark can be”.‘A hodgepodge of people’

So there you go, it wasn't whitey who built Stonehenge.

And The Red Lady of Paviland was a chap, make of that what you will. ..

We are resolutely fecked, the lunatics are officially in charge of the asylum.

More here:

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