That the education industry is a major player in the Left/Liberal indoctrination of our young is hardly news, nor is it the fault of teachers and schools (well, not always!) because for a number of years schools have had a statutory duty imposed upon them by government to “promote good race relations”. That is why we hear of schools being penalised for having too many White British pupils and too few of the other kind – it’s believed that they have to mix for relations to be good. Nor is it the fault of the schools that they have had to teach “Citizenship” since the 1990s, training our youngsters in “human rights”, “equality of opportunity” and “valuing diversity” among much else.
Now we hear of a new GCSE history course from the Oxford and Cambridge Examination Board, drawn up in conjunction with the Black and Asian Studies Association, which instructs pupils in the history of migration into England between 1000 and 2015. Media attention has focussed on the startling claim that “Africans lived in Britain before the English”. Well yes, a unit of soldiers from Africa were briefly stationed on Hadrian’s Wall near Carlisle (I hope they enjoyed the winters). But the name “Africa” did not then mean the great continent to which it is now applied, it meant the Roman province of Africa, the modern Tunisia. Coming from Tunisia these men would have been Berbers by race, like the French footballer Zinedine Zidane, not Blacks. But the story will be spun to make it appear that they were Negroes. Why? Well, in the words of Mark Ormrod, one of the historians involved in the project: “It … helps us to understand and find a place for ourselves in contemporary society”. Who are “ourselves” in this context? He can’t mean Berbers, who are rare in England (at least for now), but Black people are not rare, so it is Black people (“Africans”) that are meant.
Ormrod’s words tell us all that we need to know about the motive for this project. It’s purpose is to use misleading spin to persuade ethnic minority pupils that this country has been their’s since remote antiquity, and to persuade White British pupils that they have no claim to its sole possession – that they are not the people of the land. This conclusion is borne out by the claim that the course addresses the “white male dominated view of history”. It is further borne out when one looks at the detailed description of the course material; there is a nod to the presence in England at various times in the past of Irish, Flemish, Huguenot and Polish settlers, but detailed study and projects are reserved for Jews, Asians and West Indians. In the latter case, the experience of West Indians at the time of the Notting Hill riots in 1958 is dwelt on at length, with quotes from several Black people about their sufferings, real or alleged, at the hands of Whites – there are no quotes from Whites. Needless to say, there is no mention of the complete absence of mass immigration for many centuries before 1939, or of the stable and homogeneous society which resulted, or that three times as many people now enter the country every year as entered in the whole period from 1066 to 1950.
The whole farrago is best summed up by Chris McGovern, Chairman of the Campaign for Real Education who said “the country is being sold down the river by the politically correct brigade and national identity sacrificed for minority groups to feel included. It’s pro-immigration propaganda.” Quite so.
I have described this process as the theft of our past. It is not the only way in which it is being stolen; all of us have seen how ethnic minority actors are being cast in wholly inappropriate parts – at times or places when they could not have been present, in roles clearly written with White characters in mind. A black James Bond? Thank goodness the all-important cinema audiences in the Far East won’t stand for it! But when it comes to dramas based on our most ancient myths, “Thor”, “Beowulf” there are no oriental ticket sales to worry about. The excuse for these travesties is that the skin colour doesn’t matter, only the quality of the acting – so can we look forward to White actors being invited to play Nelson Mandela or Shaka Zulu? The real reason for “inclusive casting” is to persuade us that the multi-racial, multi-cultural society has always existed which, as anyone can testify who knows anything about our country before the 1960s , is the reverse of the truth.
So how do we get our past back? There is no quick or easy answer because we do not control the media or the schools, so we must take matters into our own hands. This means teaching our children the truth, but at the present time there is a total lack within Nationalism of the necessary intellectual resources gathered in one place in a readily accessible and digestible form; by the “necessary intellectual resources” I mean the histories, novels, poetry, films and journalism which will give our children a patriotic image of our country, her character and her achievements. But this lack can be overcome and, through Western Spring, work on compiling this material has begun.
Above all, remember the old adage – he who controls the present controls the past, and he who controls the past will control the future. Our enemies know this and are putting it into practice, we must wrest the present out of their hands.
By Frederick Dixon © 2016
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Michael Woodbridge
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Thank you for your excellent article Frederick. As you say, we need to build a coherent body of knowledge as a resource with which to oppose the pernicious, neo-Marxist indoctrination of our children. When I started teaching in the early ’70’s there was no feeling that we were ever obliged to deny our common sense instincts. With the “Cold War” still a major factor, political bias was seen as the characteristic of the opposing side, and any hint of political indoctrination was roundly condemned. I made no secret of my National Front activism in the Staff-Room and got on perfectly well with ardent Labour Party members. If anything, we found a certain amusement and bonhomie because of our differences.
Nowadays, the climate has changed and it takes moral courage to express even mild dissension. Yet history teaches us that it’s only through the courage and defiance of brave individuals that any worthwhile victory is ever won. I believe that natures eternal truths are lying dormant just beneath the surface, waiting to be released by a new heroic age.
frederick dixon
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Many thanks Mike. I must say that when I worked for a succession of local authorities it never took long to discover that some of my colleagues were very much to my way of thinking.As late as the 1990s, when I was working for the local council in a very diverse town, I wrote in protest to the staff magazine about a series of booklets circulated to all of us called “Equality Matters” with cover illustrations showing a White man (it was always a White man) being obnoxious to gays/women/ ethnics. I was told that when my letter appeared a cheer went up around the building and I received many personal congratulations. It obviously hit a nerve because the Chief Executive found it necessary to write a rebuttal in the next issue of the staff magazine, but “Equality Matters” never appeared again. I very much doubt that I would be allowed to get away with it today.
A Swain
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Dr Simon James
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/british_prehistory/peoples_01.shtml
First peoples
“The first ‘Britons’ were an ethnically mixed group © From the arrival of the first modern humans – who were hunter-gatherers, following the retreating ice of the Ice Age northwards – to the beginning of recorded history is a period of about 100 centuries, or 400 generations. This is a vast time span, and we know very little about what went on through those years; it is hard even to fully answer the question, ‘Who were the early peoples of Britain?’, because they have left no accounts of themselves.
“Throughout prehistory there were myriad small-scale societies and many petty ‘tribal’ identities…
“We can, however, say that biologically they were part of the Caucasoid population of Europe. The regional physical stereotypes familiar to us today, a pattern widely thought to result from the post-Roman Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions – red-headed people in Scotland, small, dark-haired folk in Wales and lanky blondes in southern England – already existed in Roman times. Insofar as they represent reality, they perhaps attest the post-Ice Age peopling of Britain, or the first farmers of 6,000 years ago.”
Another example – Dr. S Oppenheimer
Who was here when the Romans came?
“So who were the Britons inhabiting England at the time of the Roman invasion? The history of pre-Roman coins in southern Britain reveals an influence from Belgic Gaul. The tribes of England south of the Thames and along the south coast during Caesar’s time all had Belgic names or affiliations. Caesar tells us that these large intrusive settlements had replaced an earlier British population, which had retreated to the hinterland of southeast England. The latter may have been the large Celtic tribe, the Catuvellauni, situated in the home counties north of the Thames. Tacitus reported that between Britain and Gaul “the language differs but little.”
“The common language referred to by Tacitus was probably not Celtic, but was similar to that spoken by the Belgae, who may have been a Germanic people, as implied by Caesar. In other words, a Germanic-type language could already have been indigenous to England at the time of the Roman invasion. In support of this inference, there is some recent lexical (vocabulary) evidence analysed by Cambridge geneticist Peter Forster and continental colleagues. They found that the date of the split between old English and continental Germanic languages goes much further back than the dark ages, and that English may have been a separate, fourth branch of the Germanic language before the Roman invasion.
“Apart from the Belgian connection in the south, my analysis of the genetic evidence also shows that there were major Scandinavian incursions into northern and eastern Britain, from Shetland to Anglia, during the Neolithic period and before the Romans. These are consistent with the intense cultural interchanges across the North sea during the Neolithic and bronze age. Early Anglian dialects, such as found in the old English saga Beowulf, owe much of their vocabulary to Scandinavian languages. This is consistent with the fact that Beowulf was set in Denmark and Sweden and that the cultural affiliations of the early Anglian kingdoms, such as found in the Sutton Hoo boat burial, derive from Scandinavia.
“A picture thus emerges of the dark-ages invasions of England and northeastern Britain as less like replacements than minority elite additions, akin to earlier and larger Neolithic intrusions from the same places. There were battles for dominance between chieftains, all of Germanic origin, each invader sharing much culturally with their newly conquered indigenous subjects.
“So, based on the overall genetic perspective of the British, it seems that Celts, Belgians, Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Vikings and Normans were all immigrant minorities compared with the Basque pioneers, who first ventured into the empty, chilly lands so recently vacated by the great ice sheets.”
Dr. Oppenheimer’s population history of the British Isles relies not only on genetic data but also on the dating of language changes by methods developed by geneticists. These are not generally accepted by historical linguists, who long ago developed but largely rejected a dating method known as glottochronology.
Geneticists have recently plunged into the field, arguing that linguists have been too pessimistic and that advanced statistical methods developed for dating genes can also be applied to languages.
Stefan
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You could look at older publications that had a non PC view of the UK & reprint those?
I was pleased to see 2 examples of non PC publications over Christmas, one was a 1950s retro style 7up advert on bus stops that featured a happy White family sledging. The other was a calendar also retro looking that featured White families on days out at the seaside or picnicking.
One reason they look so retro is the fact they only feature White people.
frederick dixon
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I entirely agree. We should certainly not be loading our library with top-heavy political content (particularly with the unreadable stuff too often on sale at nationalist gatherings!). It should be anything which is accessible and enjoyable and paints a picture of our country as it once was and could be again, including e.g. the works of Agatha Christie and Dennis Wheatley, the poetry of Scott and Betjeman, the music of Grainger, Vaughan Williams and the Kinks (yes indeed) the Ealing comedies, Dad’s Army, Lord of the Rings. In case you think that this is too backward looking, we can only start with what the past, including the very recent past, has bequeathed to us, before we begin to build something new on those foundations.
Some political material would have to be included, but again it would have to be accessible and readable, so I am thinking of journalism – articles on race and immigration from the forties to the eighties – appearing in popular newspapers, reports on the words of right wing worthies such as Enoch Powell, Cyril Osborne and Ronald Bell.
An immense task, and one with some urgency. Suggestions would be welcome!
Ms Bridgit
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“by government to “promote good race relations”.
That is an oxymoron. It is RACE that is being systematically destroyed, You cannot have a Global system of rule and have ethnic identity.RACE rules were designed purely to terrify the people against even mentioning race, and it is working a treat….. Wakey!, Wakey!