The Fall of Britain - A C21 History Module

Combining time travel and ancient social media technology to provide a fully immersive historical experience for the children of the 24th Century

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“Dodge around the Lodge” has become a classic childhood game hundreds of years later, but this is its curious 21st century origin.

“Guests prepare to evade staff, Center Parcs, 19th September 2022”

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The field trip for this year’s plague module will take place in Cosham, long thought to be cursed. Your task is to establish whether there is a more rational reason for Cosham’s extraordinary COVID mortality rate. Remember: even with 350 years of immunity behind you, WEAR A MASK

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Observing her pleading for her life beside the gallows, the Lord Chief Justice is said to have turned to the cheering crowds and quipped “Who knew traitors took their necks so seriously?”

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Hartley-Brewer, famous for her rant from the dock as she was sentenced in 2024, employed a devious technique: lie, wait until the lie has its own momentum, then issue correction which gains far less attention and, crucially, do not delete lie, ensuring its continued promulgation.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Oh, this is going to be a fun afternoon. You can sign any name you want to the Revoke Article 50 petition and use the same email address repeatedly. Let the games begin! #RemoanerMcRemoanface

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Hartley-Brewer subsequently compounded matters by suggesting that those who took issue with her - many of whom had already lost their livelihoods due to lies of this nature - were taking it all too seriously.

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Some commentators were so fixated on the non-existent European enemy they had created, they attributed every setback to its malign influence. Here @DanielJHannan attempts to blame the EU for the Speaker’s entirely correct application of British parliamentary rules.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

As well as being undemocratic in itself, the EU hollows out the *internal* democracy of its member nations. The politicisation of the Speaker’s chair after 300 years is just the latest example of what I call the EU’s Hideous Strength. https://t.co/8Iuk6mupPO

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Some purportedly satirical social media accounts had a greater grasp of the reality facing Britain than those who supposedly governed the country. Here the notorious @twlldun expresses the bewilderment that swept the nation in 2019.

[Godspeed You Black Tamperer (ft Maya) @twlldun]

Can someone tell me what’s going on so I can have an opinion?

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Unfortunately, as has been observed with even more manifest untruths around this debate, a large minority was prepared to accept the word of a proven liar. This week I would like you to focus on Grimes himself and his specific contribution to the Fall of Britain.

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Here electoral fraudster Mr Grimes suggests that failure to spend on no-deal in 2017-18 or to plan for Leave in the pre-referendum months would have prevented Britain from falling into the pitiful state it did in 2019. This is so manifestly false as to be effectively unarguable.

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Mr Grimes and his fellow campaigners cannot have been unaware of the decades and sometimes centuries it had taken to build Britain’s pre-EU network of trading relationships. Even they cannot have been foolish enough to believe it could be replicated in a scant few years.

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This week I would like you to look for more examples of this phenomenon. Please take care not to interact with 21st century users of the Twitter interface.

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Mr Kawczynski here fabricates Britain’s past with factually inaccurate claims regarding the Marshall Plan. Of course none of you will have heard of Mr Kawczynski - he was just one of a breed of politicians whose mediocrity consigned them to the status of footnote.

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Most interestingly, the fact that a lie was easily refutable and, as with the lie above, comprehensively refuted, did little to diminish its impact. In time, even more egregious lies proliferated and caused damage for generations in spite of their demonstrable falsehood.

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Where possible, we will cite posts as primary sources; please note, however, that on occasion perpetrators delete posts when evidence of inaccuracy or bad faith is overwhelming. @EstherMcVey1 posting falsehoods relating to the EU and its currency, the euro, is a prime example.

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Hello and welcome to this module. This term we will be looking at the many ways in which foolish, corrupt or selfish behaviour on the part of prominent figures in the early years of the twenty-first century contributed to the fall of Great Britain itself.

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We will isolate specific instances using the social media networks of the period, primarily Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and analyse the nature of and motivations for the falsehood or incitement within each example.