The Reason Cyprus is Divided

Very recommendable! Not the finest hour of British history! E.g. the British forces are accused to have used torture. 

How Gurkha recruits are showing up the rest of the British Army

This video does not make single mentioning of the history and achievements of Gurkha soldiers in the British army! Lousy!

How The Tudors Rewrote England’s Future

Recommendable!

History of Ancient England (40,000 BC - 410 AD)

Recommendable!

First Jewish Terror Attack ? 1946 King David Hotel BOMBING

Very recommendable! It appears the British colonial power were acting like extreme jerks towards the Jews. Very surprising!

The Jewish Irgun warned the British several times that their headquarters was being targeted. 

College professor: Gender-affirming care has a long history in the US since 1960 – and not just for transgender people. Really!

This article was written by a "As a trans woman and a scholar of transgender history, I have spent much of the past decade studying these issues.". How really scholarly or biased could this article be? 

Was she appointed as a professor, because of her special transgender credentials, but otherwise scholarly unaccomplished like the controversial President of Harvard University? Perhaps, she was the First at this college? Neither Google Scholar nor Semantic Scholar list any of her publications if I am not mistaken.

However, Gender affirming care is one the most horrific euphemisms of our times! It stands for e.g. double mastectomy or castration!

When it happens to girls and women outside of Western countries it is usually quickly and loudly condemned as female genital mutilation!

I suspect there is a lot of twisting and turning of history going on this article! E.g. possible there was one nutty doctor in the 1960s who applied treatments that could be considered transgender treatment in hindsight.

Ok, there was one biological male, an actress, who became the first to receive hormone treatment and sex reassignment surgery in the early 1950s, but she was an adult at the time. My guess is that this male was not necessarily transgender, but perhaps actually more obsessed with the then new sex reassignment surgery (Caveat: I am not familiar with the details of this case).

Then the author cites this obvious and unrelated quackery as if it were gender affirming care:

"... I also learned that gender-affirming hormone therapies have been prescribed to cisgender youths for generations – despite what contemporary politicians may think. Disability scholar Eli Clare has written of the history and continued practice of prescribing hormones to boys who are too short and girls who are too tall for what is considered a “normal” range for their gender. Because of binary gender norms that celebrate height in men and smallness in women, doctors, parents and ethicists have approved the use of hormonal therapies to make children conform to these gender stereotypes since at least the 1940s. ..."

Caveat: I did not read the whole article.

Gender-affirming care has a long history in the US – and not just for transgender people

The Author: Dr. Samantha Rosenthal, Associate Professor, Roanoke College

The Dynamic Duo of the Anti-Slavery Movement Who Changed the World by Lawrence Reed

Recommendable! I was not really aware of the second man, i.e. Thomas Clarkson!

As I have said here before the American Civil War was not about ending slavery, but to prevent secession. As the article below describes so well, the British Empire effectively ended slavery already by 1838! So it was only a matter of time to for slavery to end in other parts of the world!

The Dynamic Duo of the Anti-Slavery Movement Who Changed the World - Foundation for Economic Education Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce, to their eternal credit, proved that even the most entrenched of laws and policies can be changed by people of courage, character and conscience.

Why Queen Elizabeth served as an auto mechanic | Princess Elizabeth in WW2

Definitely some unusual footage!

The Fear Of Witchcraft In Medieval Britain

Recommendable! Yesterday (10/31/2020) was Halloween!

The Plantagenets: A 2014 BBC Documentary Series

Very recommendable! 

"Bartlett, a historian and professor, examines the history of the House of Plantagenet, England's longest-ruling dynasty."

When England ruled over France!

The Plantagenets - Wikipedia

The Devil's Brood - Episode 1 | Plantagenets | BBC Documentary - YouTube

An English Empire - Episode 2 | Plantagenets | BBC Documentary - YouTube

The Death Of Kings - Episode 3 | Plantagenets | BBC Documentary - YouTube

Seven Ages of Britain By David Dimbleby

Posted: 11/17/2019

This seven part series from 2010 by David Dimbleby is very recommendable! Great narrative, great selection of artifacts and so on.

Unfortunately, I was not able to find a higher quality YouTube video of the 7th part of this series. In the last part of his series, David Dimbleby voices plenty of criticism. I suspect it is because of his outspokenness that the seventh part of his series is not available as easy and in a similar high quality as the other six parts.

Sources (S):

1. No 1 Age of Conquest
2. No 2 Age of Worship
3. No 3 Age of Power
4. No 4 Age of Revolution
5. No 5 Age of Money
6. No 6 Age of Empire
7. No 7 Age of Ambition (unfortunately poor quality)
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Ages_of_Britain_(2010_TV_series)