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The German military had a code machine. 🇬🇧 159,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible settings. Changed every twenty-four hours. They called it unbreakable. Every order. Every U-boat position. Every battle plan encrypted and sent through the air. Britain put ten thousand people in a country house in Buckinghamshire. Mathematicians. Linguists. Chess champions. Crossword... solvers. And a quiet man named Alan Turing. He designed a machine to crack the unbreakable code. A room full of spinning drums testing millions of combinations until the right one clicked into place. It worked. Every Nazi message. Every U-boat position. Every attack plan. Britain could read them all. And Germany never knew. For years, the Allies knew what the enemy was planning before the enemy had finished planning it. It shortened the war by two years. Millions of lives saved. Because of ten thousand people in a country house that nobody was supposed to know about. Then the war ended. And they went home. Every one of them had signed the Official Secrets Act. Every one was sworn to silence. For thirty years, nobody knew. Husbands never told their wives. Mothers never told their children. They helped win the war. And never said a word. They kept the secret for thirty years. The least we can do is tell the story. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧 Be part of us 👇 Sources, support and more atshow more

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The cold is British. They just never told you. ❄️🇬🇧 Every air conditioner, every fridge, every freezer on earth, the cold inside all of it was first made by a Scotsman. In 1756. ❄️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 His name was William Cullen, a doctor in Edinburgh. In a warm room, with no ice and no winter, he drew the air from a glass of ether until it boiled cold and drank the heat from the water around it, until the water froze. No one had ever done it before. Then he wrote it down and walked away. No machine, no patent, no fortune. Just the proof, on a bench. It sat there the better part of a century. A British bench built the first machine that worked, and a Scot carried it across the world to Australia, where it froze meat and cooled beer. But cold was only half the story. ❄️📖 To master the air itself took another Scot. When the Houses of Parliament burned down in 1834, David Boswell Reid made the new building breathe, its gothic spires its lungs. At St George's Hall in Liverpool in 1851 he built what is often called the first air-conditioned building on earth. It should have made him. He died forgotten in America instead. 40 years on, Willis Carrier built the machine and earned his name as the father of modern air conditioning. He earned every bit of it. But he did not make the cold. The cold was British. America took that inheritance and cooled the world with it, and that is no theft. That is what an inheritance is for. We are the home of British heroes. Not built by ads, not by the government, built by us. There's a place for you with us. Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

The cold is British. They just never told you. ❄️🇬🇧 Every air conditioner, every fridge, every freezer on earth, the cold inside all of it was first made by a Scotsman. In 1756. ❄️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 His name was William Cullen, a doctor in Edinburgh. In a warm room, with no ice and no winter, he drew the air from a glass of ether until it boiled cold and drank the heat from the water around it, until the water froze. No one had ever done it before. Then he wrote it down and walked away. No machine, no patent, no fortune. Just the proof, on a bench. It sat there the better part of a century. A British bench built the first machine that worked, and a Scot carried it across the world to Australia, where it froze meat and cooled beer. But cold was only half the story. ❄️📖 To master the air itself took another Scot. When the Houses of Parliament burned down in 1834, David Boswell Reid made the new building breathe, its gothic spires its lungs. At St George's Hall in Liverpool in 1851 he built what is often called the first air-conditioned building on earth. It should have made him. He died forgotten in America instead. 40 years on, Willis Carrier built the machine and earned his name as the father of modern air conditioning. He earned every bit of it. But he did not make the cold. The cold was British. America took that inheritance and cooled the world with it, and that is no theft. That is what an inheritance is for. We are the home of British heroes. Not built by ads, not by the government, built by us. There's a place for you with us. Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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🇬🇧 Twelve million people were taken from Africa. Chained below deck. Sold like cargo. The world watched. Nobody came. Then one country sent its navy. Not to conquer. Not to colonise. To free them. Two ships sailed out against three thousand miles of ocean. They hunted slave ships through the dark. Boarded them at sea. Broke the chains below deck. And carried the freed to a city called Freetown. When slavers saw the navy coming, they threw their captives overboard. Shackled together. Still alive. British sailors jumped in after them. Disease killed a quarter of the squadron in a single year. And still more came. Not because they were ordered to. Because they volunteered. When nations refused to stop, Britain sailed into their ports. For sixty years, they never left. A hundred and fifty thousand people walked free. Because one country decided it would pay any price to end it. These stories deserve to be told. Help us tell them. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧 Be part of us 👇 Sources, support and more at

🇬🇧 Twelve million people were taken from Africa. Chained below deck. Sold like cargo. The world watched. Nobody came. Then one country sent its navy. Not to conquer. Not to colonise. To free them. Two ships sailed out against three thousand miles of ocean. They hunted slave ships through the dark. Boarded them at sea. Broke the chains below deck. And carried the freed to a city called Freetown. When slavers saw the navy coming, they threw their captives overboard. Shackled together. Still alive. British sailors jumped in after them. Disease killed a quarter of the squadron in a single year. And still more came. Not because they were ordered to. Because they volunteered. When nations refused to stop, Britain sailed into their ports. For sixty years, they never left. A hundred and fifty thousand people walked free. Because one country decided it would pay any price to end it. These stories deserve to be told. Help us tell them. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧 Be part of us 👇 Sources, support and more at

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4,500 years ago, on this island, people walked their pigs from Scotland to Wiltshire. 🇬🇧🏛️ They came from the Scottish highlands, the mountains of Wales and the moors of the north. And they brought their pigs with them. Bones found by archaeologists at Durrington Walls, right next to Stonehenge, told the story. The teeth of those pigs locked in the chemistry of the water they drank and the grass they ate. The chemistry was Scottish. The chemistry was Welsh. The chemistry was northern English. The animals weren't local. They had been brought hundreds of miles. And carcasses don't survive a journey that long. They walked. People drove herds from one end of these islands to the other. On foot. Every year. To meet at the same place at the same time. Britain already had engineered roads by then. Older than the pyramids of Egypt. We've told that story before. But this was a different problem. Bringing whole herds. From Scotland. From Wales. From the north. To one place. At one time of year. Every year. For generations. We have found no maps. No written language. No way to send word ahead. How do you think they did it? We don't fully know. But here's what we do know. These British islands were a community before they were a country. ⏳ Lets keep that spirit going. 🙏🇬🇧 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us.🙏🇬🇧

4,500 years ago, on this island, people walked their pigs from Scotland to Wiltshire. 🇬🇧🏛️ They came from the Scottish highlands, the mountains of Wales and the moors of the north. And they brought their pigs with them. Bones found by archaeologists at Durrington Walls, right next to Stonehenge, told the story. The teeth of those pigs locked in the chemistry of the water they drank and the grass they ate. The chemistry was Scottish. The chemistry was Welsh. The chemistry was northern English. The animals weren't local. They had been brought hundreds of miles. And carcasses don't survive a journey that long. They walked. People drove herds from one end of these islands to the other. On foot. Every year. To meet at the same place at the same time. Britain already had engineered roads by then. Older than the pyramids of Egypt. We've told that story before. But this was a different problem. Bringing whole herds. From Scotland. From Wales. From the north. To one place. At one time of year. Every year. For generations. We have found no maps. No written language. No way to send word ahead. How do you think they did it? We don't fully know. But here's what we do know. These British islands were a community before they were a country. ⏳ Lets keep that spirit going. 🙏🇬🇧 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us.🙏🇬🇧

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He crossed the Thames with twenty seven thousand men. ⚔️ Sharpened stakes in the riverbed. Warriors lining the far bank shoulder to shoulder. Caesar waded in anyway. Because he was Caesar. 🇬🇧 He broke through Cassivellaunus's stronghold. He declared the island conquered. Sons of the tribal leaders handed over as a guarantee. An annual tribute agreed. Told his generals to write it down. Britain. Conquered. Done. Then he packed up every ship, every soldier, every legion. And sailed home. Not one Roman soldier left behind to enforce a single word of it. Cassivellaunus had given Caesar exactly what he needed. A piece of paper he could take back to Rome. A nominal surrender. Just enough to leave with his dignity intact. According to Britannica, the promises were probably never meant to be kept. It appears certain the tribute was never paid. Caesar went back to Gaul. The rebellions there wouldn't wait. Britain carried on exactly as before. The Catuvellauni later violated the entire treaty and conquered the Trinovantes. Rome said nothing. There was nobody left to collect it. 👀 Rome would try again. Ninety seven years later. Under a different emperor. Because Caesar's victory had not been a victory at all. And everyone knew it. Half the known world fell to Julius Caesar. Britain sent him home. 🇬🇧 Twice. Together we keep our history alive. 🇬🇧 🙏 Be part of us. ☝️ Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

He crossed the Thames with twenty seven thousand men. ⚔️ Sharpened stakes in the riverbed. Warriors lining the far bank shoulder to shoulder. Caesar waded in anyway. Because he was Caesar. 🇬🇧 He broke through Cassivellaunus's stronghold. He declared the island conquered. Sons of the tribal leaders handed over as a guarantee. An annual tribute agreed. Told his generals to write it down. Britain. Conquered. Done. Then he packed up every ship, every soldier, every legion. And sailed home. Not one Roman soldier left behind to enforce a single word of it. Cassivellaunus had given Caesar exactly what he needed. A piece of paper he could take back to Rome. A nominal surrender. Just enough to leave with his dignity intact. According to Britannica, the promises were probably never meant to be kept. It appears certain the tribute was never paid. Caesar went back to Gaul. The rebellions there wouldn't wait. Britain carried on exactly as before. The Catuvellauni later violated the entire treaty and conquered the Trinovantes. Rome said nothing. There was nobody left to collect it. 👀 Rome would try again. Ninety seven years later. Under a different emperor. Because Caesar's victory had not been a victory at all. And everyone knew it. Half the known world fell to Julius Caesar. Britain sent him home. 🇬🇧 Twice. Together we keep our history alive. 🇬🇧 🙏 Be part of us. ☝️ Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 There is something in most kitchens around the world. 🫖 You have probably used one today. A Scottish scientist invented it in London in 1892. And almost nobody knows who he was. His name was James Dewar. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Born in Kincardine, Scotland. 1842. Chemist. Physicist. One of the finest scientific minds Britain had ever produced. 🏅 Nominated for the Nobel Prize eight times. ❌ Never won. In 1892 he was trying to store liquid hydrogen. Not make a flask for your tea. ☕ He built a vessel with two glass walls and pumped the air out of the gap between them. A vacuum. No air. No heat transfer. ❄️ It worked perfectly. ✅ He didn't patent it. He just didn't. He was a scientist. Not a businessman. The science was enough. A German glassblower named Reinhold Burger had been watching. 👀 He took the design. Made it sturdier. Patented it. Named it Thermos. In 1904 it went on sale. It made a fortune. 💰 Dewar sued. ⚖️ The court agreed he was the inventor. But because he hadn't patented it there was nothing they could do. He got nothing. The word Thermos eventually became so common it lost its trademark entirely. Just a word now. For something a Scottish scientist invented in a London laboratory. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 Every flask you've ever owned. Every cup of tea kept warm on a cold morning. ☕ Every building site. Every school trip. Every football pitch. ⚽ James Dewar. Did they teach you his name? 🇬🇧 These islands have thousands of stories the world has forgotten. We find them. We tell them. We put them in front of millions. You help us make that possible. Be Part Of Us. 👉 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 There is something in most kitchens around the world. 🫖 You have probably used one today. A Scottish scientist invented it in London in 1892. And almost nobody knows who he was. His name was James Dewar. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Born in Kincardine, Scotland. 1842. Chemist. Physicist. One of the finest scientific minds Britain had ever produced. 🏅 Nominated for the Nobel Prize eight times. ❌ Never won. In 1892 he was trying to store liquid hydrogen. Not make a flask for your tea. ☕ He built a vessel with two glass walls and pumped the air out of the gap between them. A vacuum. No air. No heat transfer. ❄️ It worked perfectly. ✅ He didn't patent it. He just didn't. He was a scientist. Not a businessman. The science was enough. A German glassblower named Reinhold Burger had been watching. 👀 He took the design. Made it sturdier. Patented it. Named it Thermos. In 1904 it went on sale. It made a fortune. 💰 Dewar sued. ⚖️ The court agreed he was the inventor. But because he hadn't patented it there was nothing they could do. He got nothing. The word Thermos eventually became so common it lost its trademark entirely. Just a word now. For something a Scottish scientist invented in a London laboratory. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 Every flask you've ever owned. Every cup of tea kept warm on a cold morning. ☕ Every building site. Every school trip. Every football pitch. ⚽ James Dewar. Did they teach you his name? 🇬🇧 These islands have thousands of stories the world has forgotten. We find them. We tell them. We put them in front of millions. You help us make that possible. Be Part Of Us. 👉 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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