According to [an article in the *Journal of Archaeological Science*](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106445), the “Beachy Head Lady” turns out to be from Sussex and not from Cyprus or sub-Saharan Africa, as had previously been claimed.
Hanamafana on
The desperation to pretend medieval England wasnt all white is crazy.
CronusCronusCronus on
It does feel like we are coming to the end of a genuinely absurd 10 years of history.
Rossums on
This shouldn’t really come as much of a surprise to anyone.
I honestly find it bizarre how determined some people are to create a fictitious history where Britain was some sort of multicultural metropolis where black people had a significant impact in shaping the direction of the country.
Pre-WW2 there was an estimated 7000 ethnic minorities in the entirety of the UK with it reaching only 50k in the 1950’s post-WW2, that’s 0.1% of the population and it didn’t even break 1% of the population til the mid to late 60’s.
These stories have always just felt like a poor attempt at manufacturing consent for the excessive level of immigration that we’ve seen in the past 20 years, we’ve exploded from a 7% ethnic minority population in the 2000’s to a 17% ethnic minority population in just 20 years which is pretty insane.
Kreature on
They still had to put a POC as the first image, BBC cant bare to use a white face unless it pushes their ideology.
FuzzBuket on
So from Cyprus, and as stated, in the article not white, probably more Mediterranean
>between pale and dark skin
So yeah not exactly someone from Zambia, but not the a4 paper person people here who didn’t read the article are desperate for her to be.
How someone from the med ended up in the UK should be interesting, rather than some sorta “gotcha”
Klaus_Von_Ha on
That’s not what they’re doing at all, it’s simply showing our history is more nuanced. In fairness, given your comment, nuance seems to be a tricky concept.
Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans, all were different cultures, multicultural doesn’t necessarily mean „black“. The Romans being a great example, as shown here, of a multicultural society (not necessarily willingly so) that dominated much of Britain, and some of those soldiers were not white.
nellion91 on
You have to love the fact that currently off roughly 20 comments 10 push the “woke is proven wrong finally” none sense without reading neither this article nor the previous ones.
No “woke ambassador “ had claimed the skull was non white, it was the original hypothesis made by the people that found the skull, this hypothesis has now been revised.
Multiple comments calling it a medieval skull, which is confusing seeing as the skull is dated from the days of the western Roman Empire…
And finally this persistent trope that there were 0 non white people in Europe in the past until “woke went mad” is really quite interesting and as expected with people that confuse the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages, just not true.
Voyage and trade and slavery are not recent
Leading_Draft_1953 on
Is anyone going to read the article and what it says or are they just going to assume this was all done as part of the anti-white conspiracy?
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According to [an article in the *Journal of Archaeological Science*](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106445), the “Beachy Head Lady” turns out to be from Sussex and not from Cyprus or sub-Saharan Africa, as had previously been claimed.
The desperation to pretend medieval England wasnt all white is crazy.
It does feel like we are coming to the end of a genuinely absurd 10 years of history.
This shouldn’t really come as much of a surprise to anyone.
I honestly find it bizarre how determined some people are to create a fictitious history where Britain was some sort of multicultural metropolis where black people had a significant impact in shaping the direction of the country.
Pre-WW2 there was an estimated 7000 ethnic minorities in the entirety of the UK with it reaching only 50k in the 1950’s post-WW2, that’s 0.1% of the population and it didn’t even break 1% of the population til the mid to late 60’s.
These stories have always just felt like a poor attempt at manufacturing consent for the excessive level of immigration that we’ve seen in the past 20 years, we’ve exploded from a 7% ethnic minority population in the 2000’s to a 17% ethnic minority population in just 20 years which is pretty insane.
They still had to put a POC as the first image, BBC cant bare to use a white face unless it pushes their ideology.
So from Cyprus, and as stated, in the article not white, probably more Mediterranean
>between pale and dark skin
So yeah not exactly someone from Zambia, but not the a4 paper person people here who didn’t read the article are desperate for her to be.
How someone from the med ended up in the UK should be interesting, rather than some sorta “gotcha”
That’s not what they’re doing at all, it’s simply showing our history is more nuanced. In fairness, given your comment, nuance seems to be a tricky concept.
Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans, all were different cultures, multicultural doesn’t necessarily mean „black“. The Romans being a great example, as shown here, of a multicultural society (not necessarily willingly so) that dominated much of Britain, and some of those soldiers were not white.
You have to love the fact that currently off roughly 20 comments 10 push the “woke is proven wrong finally” none sense without reading neither this article nor the previous ones.
No “woke ambassador “ had claimed the skull was non white, it was the original hypothesis made by the people that found the skull, this hypothesis has now been revised.
Multiple comments calling it a medieval skull, which is confusing seeing as the skull is dated from the days of the western Roman Empire…
And finally this persistent trope that there were 0 non white people in Europe in the past until “woke went mad” is really quite interesting and as expected with people that confuse the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages, just not true.
Voyage and trade and slavery are not recent
Is anyone going to read the article and what it says or are they just going to assume this was all done as part of the anti-white conspiracy?