Elizabethan adventurers Hawkins and Drake were slave traders. Not many people know that - and they should.
Yeah, I'm put off by a lot of very popular history literature by the gung-ho tone. I read 'Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World' and that swashbuckling jolly imperialist tone is so grating, with real massacres brushed over as 'what those bad fellows did in those days', and non european cultures portrayed really cartoonishly, and an absolute ignorance of the peasant and working people's history at this point. /rant
However, I still want to watch this, thanks for posting! I'm currently trying to work out how to run a UK IP address as I'm abroad and god I miss the BBC.
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Yeah, I'm put off by a lot of very popular history literature by the gung-ho tone. I read 'Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World' and that swashbuckling jolly imperialist tone is so grating, with real massacres brushed over as 'what those bad fellows did in those days', and non european cultures portrayed really cartoonishly, and an absolute ignorance of the peasant and working people's history at this point. /rant
However, I still want to watch this, thanks for posting! I'm currently trying to work out how to run a UK IP address as I'm abroad and god I miss the BBC.
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