Please explain how the finding that “many women of colour would have worked in domestic service and experienced race and sex-based discrimination” helps understand the present day situation. (View Post)

I wonder how firmly founded that estimate is. It shouldn’t matter, of course, but there’s a palpable ambition to retrocon multiculturalism into historic Britain. In fact, one would want to assume the… (View Post)

Actually, these days, just any costume drama. And it now looks kind of odd when you see old films populated exclusively with white people. (View Post)

Some researchers are quite desperate to prove that (a) the numbers of black people in the British population was much higher than is commonly thought, and (b) that they were always subject to quite t… (View Post)

For “gigafactory”, read productive capacity of any sort whatsoever. (View Post)