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Originally Posted by Dezzy
I can't remember being taught anything that painted the Empire in a bad light, hell I wasn't really aware that we were involved in the slave trade until I looked it up after watching 12 years a Slave.
I can only hope that the History syllabus has become more balanced since I was in School.
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Did you know that an estimated 1 million Irish people died and another million left Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine and all the while that this was happening food was being shipped from Ireland to England under military guard