Pull Up a Chair.
The history they didn’t teach us. The decisions that shaped our world, and the extraordinary fuckwhittery we inherited.
Welcome to the Madness
Wait. They did WHAT?
History is full of decisions so outrageous they sound made up.
They aren’t.
Unbelievable True History.
Empires drew borders. Governments flooded villages. Ordinary people lived with the consequences.
Fuckwhittery follows the forgotten stories, questionable decisions and extraordinary events that shaped our world.
Real history. Connected stories. Plenty of reasons to shake your head.
The Rabbit Holes History gets stranger the deeper you dig.
The Villages We Put Underwater
On a train to Belleville, a woman told me she was from the Lost Villages. I imagined a place that had slipped out of use: […]
The Year Summer Forgot to Show Up
In Grade 8 history, many of us learned about the War of 1812. We learned about battles, borders, and the time British troops burned the […]
Apparently Once Wasn’t Enough
There is a name for the long struggle between Britain and Russia for power in Central Asia: the Great Game. It sounds rather grand. For […]
WHY WE'RE HERE Because Someone Thought This Was a Good Idea.
The Decisions
Move a village. Redirect a river. Draw a border across land you’ve never visited. Invade another country because the last attempt went so spectacularly well.
History is full of grand plans made with extraordinary confidence and remarkably little consideration for what might go wrong.
The Consequences
Behind those decisions were ordinary people. Families displaced, communities divided, traditions disrupted and generations left to deal with consequences they never chose.
Some stories are absurd enough to make us laugh. Others deserve considerably more reflection.
The Stories Worth Remembering
Fuckwhittery explores unbelievable true history, forgotten events and the extraordinary decisions that shaped Canada and the wider world. We follow the evidence, connect the stories and question the familiar versions of history we were taught.
Because history isn’t just what happened. It’s how we got here.