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Exclusive: Majority of British people found to have ‘shockingly little’ knowledge about Black British history

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd heard of Coleridge. Victorian poet and friend of Mary Shelley and Lord Byron. He wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which Iron Maiden covered some years later.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oooooooops.

Now I look like a silly billy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I may have thought "Coleridge was black?" and then Googled it to find out. If you are going to get anyone confused it's probably be Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.