Re: Agree.
"Soon as guy of inportance is English that will be mentioned but for some odd reason, take Brunel, for instance, not a word about the fact he was French, went to the USA and then came to England."
I like the way you write his English mother out of his history, or the fact that he was born in this country and spent his early life there before completing his education in France from 14 on. By any normal test of nationality he was English. (And we are a country built on the integration of immigrants anyway.)
I'm also unsure that at the period in question Britain was living on "looted wealth". The height of the Empire was some way in the future. The Great Exhibition was set up to display British manufactures and exports.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
