Fake British History By The BBC

[Eleatic Guest]

   
This snapshot from BBC's multi-part series "The Story of Britain" is seriously meant to portray a "typical family in Roman Britain".

I wonder at what point the political desire to be inclusive and 'multicultural' corrupts the quest for historical accuracy.

And I wonder at what point classicists and medievalists leave their ivory tower and speak out against this historical revisionism.

That this portrayal is not an accident or a one-off, but is intentionally done by the BBC to rewrite history can be seen from the other episodes of the series:

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I think this multiculturalistic mindset is beginning to negatively affect the study of the discipline we love so much. And I believe this kind of fake history will be getting only worse if we do not speak out against it for fear of being labelled as you know so. Feel free to move it to off-topic though.