Yorkshire Parkin Cake And Tea Under Investigation

[naomi24]

//Leeds City Council has launched an educational research project into tea produced in Yorkshire and Yorkshire parkin cakes over links to colonialism and the slave trade.//

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/yorkshire-tea-parkin-cakes-slave-trade-b1888049.html

Meanwhile, cuts in expenditure will, among other things, result in job losses, cuts to health care and the closure of some care homes.

https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/what-leeds-city-council-cutting-19929645

Good to see they have their priorities right.

[sp1814]

royfromaus

That was actually taken from Thomas Thistlewood’s diaries.

His words, not mine.

[Atheist]

If kids have so many history periods a week then that's what they have. Is it right that the history they are taught should be determined by the views of ABers? I don't think anybody is suggesting that they should have extra history lessons at the expense of other subjects, just to inculcate them with 'unpatriotic' ideas. Why do some people get so upset about whether baddies in the past had black or white skins?

[royfromaus]

Why do some people get so upset about whether baddies in the past had black or white skins?
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Dunno

sp?

[Spicerack]

Children shouldn't be exposed to every perversion of every diseased mind.

[Atheist]

Spice; what on earth are you talking about?

[sp1814]

royfromaus

Not sure why that's directed at me. And isn't the use of 'baddies' a little reductive?

Hopefully with a rounded education of Britain's imperial past, kids of today won't see history as simply a collection of goodies and baddies - they'll see history for what it is, shades of grey.

[sp1814]

Hang on...just noticed something,.

Spicerack...you have kids????!!!!!

Thank you for putting a smile on my face tonight.

LOL.

Peace!