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Everyone knows Britain was part of the slave trade. 🇬🇧 What you don't hear enough is who ended it. Slavery didn't start with Britain. It started over five thousand years ago. Africa's own slave trade ran for over a thousand years, before a single European ship arrived. The Arab world traded slaves for over thirteen centuries. Every empire in history was built on it. Nobody had ever ended it. Britain did. A law was passed. A date was set. August the first. Eighteen thirty-four. Eight hundred thousand people would be free. And when midnight came... They were all free. The largest act of emancipation in human history. A five-thousand-year-old system. Ended. Because the British people said so. Be part of us: 👉 👈 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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Everyone knows Britain was part of the slave trade. 🇬🇧 What you don't hear enough is who ended it. Slavery didn't start with Britain. It started over five thousand years ago. Africa's own slave trade ran for over a thousand years, before a single European ship arrived. The Arab world traded slaves for over thirteen centuries. Every empire in history was built on it. Nobody had ever ended it. Britain did. A law was passed. A date was set. August the first. Eighteen thirty-four. Eight hundred thousand people would be free. And when midnight came... They were all free. The largest act of emancipation in human history. A five-thousand-year-old system. Ended. Because the British people said so. Be part of us: 👉 👈 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Before 1830, nobody had a lawn. The rich had their grass cut by scythemen. Ordinary people had no garden worth speaking of. Edwin Budding was an engineer in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Working in a textile mill, he noticed a machine using a cutting cylinder to trim the surface of cloth. He looked at it. And thought about grass. He built a machine with a cutting cylinder mounted on a wheeled frame. Then pushed it across his garden at midnight. At midnight. So the neighbours wouldn't see. It worked. He patented it in August 1830. Within twenty years the Victorian suburb was born. The striped lawn. The neat garden. The Sunday morning ritual. Every suburban garden in America. Every cricket ground. Every football pitch. Every golf course on earth. Traces back to one man. In Stroud. With a cloth machine. At midnight. Right now, somewhere in the world, someone is cutting their grass. And they have no idea who Edwin Budding was. Help us share more of our history: Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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Britain called her a housewife. 📰 She’d mapped the molecule that saved the war. Dorothy Hodgkin’s hands were destroying themselves. Rheumatoid arthritis twisting every joint, locking every finger. The instruments she needed were the size of pins. She kept working. 🔬 1945. Soldiers dying of infected wounds. Penicillin could save them — but no one knew its molecular shape. Without that, you can’t mass-produce the drug. Hodgkin mapped it. Seventeen atoms. Four years. With hands that could barely hold the equipment. Penicillin went into mass production. Millions survived. 🌍 Then she went bigger. Vitamin B12. A hundred and eighty-one atoms. The most complex molecule ever mapped at the time. Eight years. They said it couldn’t be done. She did it anyway. 1964. Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 🏆 The only British woman ever to win a science Nobel. The Daily Mail headline? “Oxford housewife wins Nobel.” She’d solved the molecule that saved the war. Cracked the one they said was impossible. And they called her a housewife. But she wasn’t finished. Insulin. Seven hundred and eighty-eight atoms. She started in 1935. Finished in 1969. Thirty-four years. By the end, her hands were almost useless. ❤️ She taught at Oxford for half a century. One of her students was a young chemist named Margaret Roberts. Who became Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher hung Dorothy’s portrait in Downing Street. Every antibiotic you’ve ever taken. Every insulin injection. Every life saved by understanding the shape of a molecule. That traces back to a woman whose hands were failing her, and who never stopped. Stories like hers get buried. We put them in front of millions. Help us keep these stories alive → Be part of us. Be proud of us. 🙏🇬🇧

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🇬🇧 Magna Carta had a twin. It was law for 754 years. You've never heard of it. After 1066, the Normans claimed the forests of England. Not just the trees... Villages, farmland, rivers. One third of the country. Land ordinary people had farmed for centuries. Taken. Hunt a deer to feed your family? They blinded you. Cut down a tree to heat your home? They took your hands. 1215. The barons forced King John to sign Magna Carta. The most famous document in English history. But Magna Carta was for the barons. Not for the people in the forests. Two years later. 1217. A second charter was sealed. The Charter of the Forest. This one was for everyone. The right to gather firewood. The right to graze your animals. The right to fish the streams. No more blinding. No more mutilation. For gathering wood. For the first time in English law, ordinary people had rights to the land. Not given by the king. Taken from him. 754 years. It was law until 1971. Every common in England. Every village green. Every right of way. The idea that land belongs to everyone... It started here. 🇬🇧 They taught you Magna Carta. They never taught you this. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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Britain once ruled a quarter of the earth.🇬🇧🗺️ Sixty countries. Four hundred million people. The largest empire in human history. Every empire that ever existed fought to hold on. Rome burned for centuries. The Ottoman Empire collapsed in genocide. France fought Algeria for eight years... Hundreds of thousands dead. Portugal fought three colonial wars at once. Belgium abandoned the Congo to chaos. Every empire held on. Until it couldn't. Britain opened the door. And over forty nations walked through it. Ghana. 1957. The first. A room in London. Lancaster House. Two sides of a table. They negotiated a constitution. Agreed on a date. A flag came down. A new one went up. Peacefully. Then they did it again. Jamaica. Trinidad. Barbados. Botswana. Sri Lanka. Zambia. Forty times. Most without a single shot fired. The only empire in history to choose mercy. It wasn't perfect. India's partition cost a million lives. Kenya's path to freedom was brutal. Britain admitted it. And paid reparations to the survivors. But no nation in history had ever even tried. Every other empire fought to hold on. Britain sat down at a table. And signed them free. Country by country. Flag by flag. The most honourable transfer of power in human history. They taught you the empire was only shame. They never taught you that one of the empire's greatest acts... was how it ended. The world forgot. We never will. Help us tell the real story 👇 Be part of us: 👉 🙏 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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There's a horse carved into a hillside in England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 3,000 years old. Grass covers chalk in twenty years. If you stop maintaining it, it disappears. No one has ever stopped. Nobody knows who carved it. A tribe on these hills. A thousand years before the Romans arrived. We don't know why. But it mattered enough to keep. Romans marched beneath it. Saxons farmed around it. Normans built castles in its shadow. Every one of them climbed that hill. When the Black Death killed half the country... Someone still climbed that hill. Nobody told them to. 3,000 years. Ordinary people. Choosing to remember. That's not a monument. That's a promise. And no one's broken it yet. Every story needs someone to climb the hill. Without you, the grass grows back. Every video we make is funded by people who chose to climb. No sponsors. No ads. Just people who believe our history is worth saving. Be part of us: Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Britain. 1943. The war was being fought on every front. But the coal mines were failing. Without coal there was no steel. No ships. No weapons. A hundred thousand miners had left for the front. So Ernest Bevin announced a solution. Every tenth man called up for military service would not go to war. He would go underground. The ballot was random. No exceptions. No appeals. University students. Office workers. Farmers’ sons. Forty-eight thousand of them. They were called the Bevin Boys. None of them had ever been in a mine. The tunnels were four feet high. The coal had to be cut by hand. Six days a week. Ten hours a day. Some were injured. Some were killed. They received no campaign medals. No recognition whatsoever. But they kept the steel mills running. The ships sailing. The weapons being made. They kept Britain in the war. When the war ended, most were not released for months. Some were refused their old jobs when they came back. For decades they were not eligible for veteran status. It took until 1995 for them to receive formal recognition. Forty-eight thousand young men who went down instead of going to war. That is your history. And almost no one is telling you. 🇬🇧 Proud Of Us is funded entirely by our own community. No sponsors. No advertisers. Help us keep our history alive. Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Britain. 1943. The war was being fought on every front. But the coal mines were failing. Without coal there was no steel. No ships. No weapons. A hundred thousand miners had left for the front. So Ernest Bevin announced a solution. Every tenth man called up for military service would not go to war. He would go underground. The ballot was random. No exceptions. No appeals. University students. Office workers. Farmers’ sons. Forty-eight thousand of them. They were called the Bevin Boys. None of them had ever been in a mine. The tunnels were four feet high. The coal had to be cut by hand. Six days a week. Ten hours a day. Some were injured. Some were killed. They received no campaign medals. No recognition whatsoever. But they kept the steel mills running. The ships sailing. The weapons being made. They kept Britain in the war. When the war ended, most were not released for months. Some were refused their old jobs when they came back. For decades they were not eligible for veteran status. It took until 1995 for them to receive formal recognition. Forty-eight thousand young men who went down instead of going to war. That is your history. And almost no one is telling you. 🇬🇧 Proud Of Us is funded entirely by our own community. No sponsors. No advertisers. Help us keep our history alive. Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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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. 🙏🇬🇧
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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. 🙏🇬🇧

Proudofus.uk

56,349 次观看 • 2 个月前

COVID showed us exactly how fast the authoritarian global system will take our freedom away. They lied to us about the science behind standing six feet apart, locking us in our homes, and pulling our kids out of school. They lied about masks stopping a virus that small. They lied about the vaccine stopping transmission. Every politician who repeated it lied. Every journalist who repeated it lied. Every doctor who stood behind it lied to the world. The doctors who treated their patients successfully with steroids, ivermectin, and hydroxychloroquine had their licenses taken away for it. This happened in America, in Poland, in Italy, in Japan, across the entire world. It was an attack on good doctors everywhere at once. The whole time, they told us there would never be a drug that worked for COVID. There was no way to know that in advance. They told us the only solution would be a vaccine, before they even understood what COVID was. That tells you everything about what this was designed to do from the first day. It was designed to make you believe in vaccines. This was never about protecting our children. They were already vaccinating children long before COVID arrived, and it was never enough for them. What they needed was your body. Every adult, every citizen, they wanted control over all of us.
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COVID showed us exactly how fast the authoritarian global system will take our freedom away. They lied to us about the science behind standing six feet apart, locking us in our homes, and pulling our kids out of school. They lied about masks stopping a virus that small. They lied about the vaccine stopping transmission. Every politician who repeated it lied. Every journalist who repeated it lied. Every doctor who stood behind it lied to the world. The doctors who treated their patients successfully with steroids, ivermectin, and hydroxychloroquine had their licenses taken away for it. This happened in America, in Poland, in Italy, in Japan, across the entire world. It was an attack on good doctors everywhere at once. The whole time, they told us there would never be a drug that worked for COVID. There was no way to know that in advance. They told us the only solution would be a vaccine, before they even understood what COVID was. That tells you everything about what this was designed to do from the first day. It was designed to make you believe in vaccines. This was never about protecting our children. They were already vaccinating children long before COVID arrived, and it was never enough for them. What they needed was your body. Every adult, every citizen, they wanted control over all of us.

Del Bigtree

20,639 次观看 • 23 天前

🇬🇧 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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🇬🇧 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

Proudofus.uk

83,636 次观看 • 6 个月前

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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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.🙏🇬🇧

Proudofus.uk

44,633 次观看 • 4 个月前

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 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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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 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. 🇬🇧

Proudofus.uk

45,116 次观看 • 6 个月前