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Two British men built the machine that changed the world. 🇬🇧⚙️ An ironmonger. And a plumber. You've never heard of either of them. 1690s. Britain's mines were drowning. The deeper they went, the more they flooded. Men drowned in those tunnels. Children hauled water out by hand. Bucket by... bucket. When the water won, the mine closed. And the village starved. Thomas Newcomen. Ironmonger. Dartmouth, Devon. John Calley. Plumber and glazier. Both Baptists. Both barred from the universities. Both outsiders. One knew metal. The other knew water. They worked for a decade. With their own money. No patron. No institution. Just a forge, a bench, and an idea. For years, it wouldn't work. Then cold water leaked through a crack. The steam condensed instantly. The engine fired. The flaw was the answer. 1712. A coal mine near Dudley Castle. They built their engine at the pit head. Twelve strokes a minute. Ten gallons a stroke. Not horses. Not children. A machine. But they couldn't patent it. Thomas Savery already held the rights — to every engine that raised water by fire. Even machines he never built. Calley died in Holland. 1725. Far from home. Still working on their engine. Newcomen died in London. 1729. His grave is lost. Decades later, a young man was asked to fix a model of their engine. While fixing it, he saw how to improve it. His name was James Watt. You've heard of him. But without them, there is no engine for Watt to fix. No Industrial Revolution. No modern world. Every factory. Every railway. Every power station. British men. An ironmonger. And a plumber. And that's only a fraction of what we have done for the world. 🇬🇧 Names like theirs are buried everywhere. We dig them out. No sponsors. No algorithms. Just a community that believes its true history matters. Our community makes that happen 👉 Be part of us.🙏 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧show more

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🏛️⚖️ For a thousand years, the British people governed themselves without the state. This is how they did it. A thousand years ago in England, there were no police. There were no prisons. There was no central state strong enough to reach every village. And yet, somehow, England worked. The reason was something the Anglo-Saxons had built into the foundations of their society. They called it frankpledge. Every man in every village belonged to a group of ten. They were called a tithing. ⚖️ And each man, by law, was responsible for the conduct of every other man in his tithing. If one man committed a crime, his nine neighbours were responsible for bringing him to justice. If they failed, they paid the fine themselves. The whole tithing answered for the crime of one man. 📜 The system was given the force of law by King Canute, the Anglo-Danish king who united England in peace. Between 1016 and 1035, Canute decreed that every man over the age of 12 must belong to a tithing. When the Normans came in 1066, they could have abolished it. They did the opposite. William the Conqueror kept the Anglo-Saxon system. And he made it stronger. ⚔️ Twice every year, the Sheriff would arrive in the village. He would call the tithings together. He would check that every man was accounted for. This was called the View of Frankpledge. The system held England together for 300 years. And when the king's courts eventually grew to replace it, two pieces of frankpledge stayed behind. 🔥 The first became the jury. Twelve neighbours, called to judge another. The same idea, transplanted from the village to the courtroom. The second became the constable. The man chosen from among neighbours to keep the peace. Not imposed from above. Chosen from below. Modern British policing began here. The jury system began here. The principle that ordinary British people are responsible for ordinary British people began in an Anglo-Saxon village a thousand years ago. ✍️ For a thousand years, we have been responsible for each other. We do not need the state to teach us how to belong. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This channel has no ads. No sponsors. No state funding. It is built the same way the tithing was built. By the people who choose to stand in it. Be part of us 🇬🇧👉 👈🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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For a thousand years, when nobody was coming to help the British people, the British people helped each other. 🇬🇧 That has always been our answer. Long before any state asked it of us. Long before any law required it. We were already looking after each other. 🙏 In the year 900, every Anglo-Saxon man was bound by oath to nine of his neighbours. If one was wronged, the other nine were responsible for putting it right. ⚖️ The whole village answerable for each other. It wasn't charity. It wasn't kindness. It was the law. By the 1300s, every English parish kept what they called a poor box. 🍞 Bread for the family who couldn't farm. Wool for the widow who couldn't weave. Coin for the orphan with no one. The state didn't tell them to. The state didn't even exist yet. They just did it. In the 1400s, the wealthy started leaving their fortunes in their wills. Not to their children. Not to the church. To strangers. 🏛️ To houses where elderly neighbours could live for the rest of their lives. Some of those almshouses, founded six hundred years ago, are still housing British people today. In the 1700s, the working men came together. They didn't own land. They didn't have fortunes. They had a few pennies a week. So they pooled them. They called themselves Friendly Societies. ⏳ If a member fell sick, his family was fed. If a member died, his children were buried with dignity. If a member was injured, the doctor's bill was paid. By the 1870s, half the working men of Britain belonged to one. Long before there was a welfare state, the British working class had built one for themselves. Penny by penny. 🪙 In 1824, William Hillary watched a ship break up off the Isle of Man. He could hear the sailors calling for help. Nobody was coming for them. No navy. No coastguard. No state. ⛵ So Hillary asked the British people to be the ones who came. Volunteers. Donations. Lifeboats. Two centuries later, the RNLI has saved more than 146,000 lives. Still volunteer-run. Still funded by donations. Still no state involvement. 🌊 In 1862, half a million Lancashire mill workers were out of work. A naval blockade had cut off the slave-grown cotton from America. Their families were starving. Someone offered them slave-grown cotton from elsewhere. Just to keep working. They voted on it. In Manchester's Free Trade Hall. They voted no. They chose hunger. For people they would never meet. For people enslaved on the other side of an ocean. 💔 In 1911, a chancellor named Lloyd George stood up in Parliament. He had a plan. Workers would pay a few pennies a week. Their employers would pay too. And in return, when a worker fell sick, his family would be fed. The doctor's bill would be paid. He didn't invent the idea. He copied it. From the Friendly Societies the British working class had been running themselves for two hundred years. Thirty-seven years later, a Welsh miner's son named Aneurin Bevan made it national. 🏥 They called it the National Health Service. One of the proudest achievements in British history. And it was built on the model the Friendly Societies had been running for two hundred years before it. British working people had already invented it. The state finally caught up. The state didn't give us this. We gave it to ourselves. ✊ 🙏🇬🇧 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

For a thousand years, when nobody was coming to help the British people, the British people helped each other. 🇬🇧 That has always been our answer. Long before any state asked it of us. Long before any law required it. We were already looking after each other. 🙏 In the year 900, every Anglo-Saxon man was bound by oath to nine of his neighbours. If one was wronged, the other nine were responsible for putting it right. ⚖️ The whole village answerable for each other. It wasn't charity. It wasn't kindness. It was the law. By the 1300s, every English parish kept what they called a poor box. 🍞 Bread for the family who couldn't farm. Wool for the widow who couldn't weave. Coin for the orphan with no one. The state didn't tell them to. The state didn't even exist yet. They just did it. In the 1400s, the wealthy started leaving their fortunes in their wills. Not to their children. Not to the church. To strangers. 🏛️ To houses where elderly neighbours could live for the rest of their lives. Some of those almshouses, founded six hundred years ago, are still housing British people today. In the 1700s, the working men came together. They didn't own land. They didn't have fortunes. They had a few pennies a week. So they pooled them. They called themselves Friendly Societies. ⏳ If a member fell sick, his family was fed. If a member died, his children were buried with dignity. If a member was injured, the doctor's bill was paid. By the 1870s, half the working men of Britain belonged to one. Long before there was a welfare state, the British working class had built one for themselves. Penny by penny. 🪙 In 1824, William Hillary watched a ship break up off the Isle of Man. He could hear the sailors calling for help. Nobody was coming for them. No navy. No coastguard. No state. ⛵ So Hillary asked the British people to be the ones who came. Volunteers. Donations. Lifeboats. Two centuries later, the RNLI has saved more than 146,000 lives. Still volunteer-run. Still funded by donations. Still no state involvement. 🌊 In 1862, half a million Lancashire mill workers were out of work. A naval blockade had cut off the slave-grown cotton from America. Their families were starving. Someone offered them slave-grown cotton from elsewhere. Just to keep working. They voted on it. In Manchester's Free Trade Hall. They voted no. They chose hunger. For people they would never meet. For people enslaved on the other side of an ocean. 💔 In 1911, a chancellor named Lloyd George stood up in Parliament. He had a plan. Workers would pay a few pennies a week. Their employers would pay too. And in return, when a worker fell sick, his family would be fed. The doctor's bill would be paid. He didn't invent the idea. He copied it. From the Friendly Societies the British working class had been running themselves for two hundred years. Thirty-seven years later, a Welsh miner's son named Aneurin Bevan made it national. 🏥 They called it the National Health Service. One of the proudest achievements in British history. And it was built on the model the Friendly Societies had been running for two hundred years before it. British working people had already invented it. The state finally caught up. The state didn't give us this. We gave it to ourselves. ✊ 🙏🇬🇧 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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Try to name one leader alive today who would do this. In 325 BC, in the middle of a desert that was killing his army, Alexander the Great was handed the only water his men had found for miles. He had brought them there himself. Coming home from India there were safer roads, but he chose the Gedrosian Desert, in what is now southern Iran and Pakistan. The Greek historian Arrian is clear that he knew what he was doing. He went that way because almost nobody had ever brought an army through it alive: legend said the queen Semiramis came out the other side with twenty men, and Cyrus the Great with seven. Alexander wanted to beat them both. The crossing took sixty days. Arrian writes that the suffering on that march was out of all proportion to anything his troops had endured in Asia. They moved at night, and men fell asleep where they collapsed. The sick were left at the roadside, because there was nobody to carry them and no time to stop. Somewhere in the middle of it, a few soldiers went looking for water and found a tiny trickle in a gully. They scraped up what they could, tipped it into a helmet, and carried it back to their king... Every man watching him was dying of thirst. So was he. "Alexander, with a word of thanks for the gift, took the helmet and, in full view of his troops, poured the water on the ground." There was not enough for all of them, so he would not take what he could not give. And Arrian records what that did to an army of men who could barely stand: "So extraordinary was the effect of this action that the water wasted by Alexander was as good as a drink for every man in the army." They got up, and they marched. We now live in an age of leaders who start wars their sons will never fight, who ask for sacrifices they would never dream of making themselves, who are always the first to be spared and the last to pay the price. Alexander was often ruthless and deeply flawed, yes, but he was a true leader and he knew that real power has never come from standing above your people, but from going thirsty beside them…

Try to name one leader alive today who would do this. In 325 BC, in the middle of a desert that was killing his army, Alexander the Great was handed the only water his men had found for miles. He had brought them there himself. Coming home from India there were safer roads, but he chose the Gedrosian Desert, in what is now southern Iran and Pakistan. The Greek historian Arrian is clear that he knew what he was doing. He went that way because almost nobody had ever brought an army through it alive: legend said the queen Semiramis came out the other side with twenty men, and Cyrus the Great with seven. Alexander wanted to beat them both. The crossing took sixty days. Arrian writes that the suffering on that march was out of all proportion to anything his troops had endured in Asia. They moved at night, and men fell asleep where they collapsed. The sick were left at the roadside, because there was nobody to carry them and no time to stop. Somewhere in the middle of it, a few soldiers went looking for water and found a tiny trickle in a gully. They scraped up what they could, tipped it into a helmet, and carried it back to their king... Every man watching him was dying of thirst. So was he. "Alexander, with a word of thanks for the gift, took the helmet and, in full view of his troops, poured the water on the ground." There was not enough for all of them, so he would not take what he could not give. And Arrian records what that did to an army of men who could barely stand: "So extraordinary was the effect of this action that the water wasted by Alexander was as good as a drink for every man in the army." They got up, and they marched. We now live in an age of leaders who start wars their sons will never fight, who ask for sacrifices they would never dream of making themselves, who are always the first to be spared and the last to pay the price. Alexander was often ruthless and deeply flawed, yes, but he was a true leader and he knew that real power has never come from standing above your people, but from going thirsty beside them…

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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 at

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 at

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Every freedom you have was fought for by British people. 🇬🇧 And it wasn't taken by kings. Or generals. Or lords. A king was told he was not above the law. By the people beneath him. English peasants marched on London and demanded an end to serfdom. They were slaughtered. But serfdom ended. A judge locked a jury in a room without food or water for refusing to convict two men. They still refused. No jury in the English-speaking world has been punished since. Sixty thousand people gathered in Manchester to demand the right to vote. The government sent cavalry. Eighteen were killed. The demand never stopped. Ordinary people signed petitions until Parliament couldn't ignore them. Britain abolished slavery. But it didn't stop there. It sent its navy to force the rest of the world to do the same. For sixty years. Girls as young as thirteen were working fourteen-hour days. The phosphorus was rotting their jaws. The company was paying 23% dividends. Fourteen hundred women walked out. They won. And sparked the entire modern trade union movement. They taught you about the kings. They never mentioned the people. This is the real story of Britain. Not just the kings. Not just the empires. The British people. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Every freedom you have was fought for by British people. 🇬🇧 And it wasn't taken by kings. Or generals. Or lords. A king was told he was not above the law. By the people beneath him. English peasants marched on London and demanded an end to serfdom. They were slaughtered. But serfdom ended. A judge locked a jury in a room without food or water for refusing to convict two men. They still refused. No jury in the English-speaking world has been punished since. Sixty thousand people gathered in Manchester to demand the right to vote. The government sent cavalry. Eighteen were killed. The demand never stopped. Ordinary people signed petitions until Parliament couldn't ignore them. Britain abolished slavery. But it didn't stop there. It sent its navy to force the rest of the world to do the same. For sixty years. Girls as young as thirteen were working fourteen-hour days. The phosphorus was rotting their jaws. The company was paying 23% dividends. Fourteen hundred women walked out. They won. And sparked the entire modern trade union movement. They taught you about the kings. They never mentioned the people. This is the real story of Britain. Not just the kings. Not just the empires. The British people. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 In the second half of the eighteenth century, something happened in Scotland. A country of one and a half million people. Produced ideas that changed the entire world. In one generation. Adam Smith. He wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776. He invented economics. David Hume. He asked the question nobody had dared ask. How do we actually know anything? His answer changed philosophy forever. James Watt. Walking across Glasgow Green, the idea came to him. A separate condenser. It made the steam engine practical. And started the Industrial Revolution. Joseph Black. He discovered latent heat. The principle that made refrigeration, steam power and thermodynamics possible. James Hutton. He looked at the rocks at Siccar Point. And understood the earth was unimaginably old. He invented geology. These men knew each other. They argued in the same taverns. Walked the same streets. In one generation, one small country invented economics, philosophy, geology, thermodynamics and the steam engine. The modern world runs on what they built. 🇬🇧 This is your history. Help us keep it alive. 👇 Be Part Of Us 👉 🙏 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 In the second half of the eighteenth century, something happened in Scotland. A country of one and a half million people. Produced ideas that changed the entire world. In one generation. Adam Smith. He wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776. He invented economics. David Hume. He asked the question nobody had dared ask. How do we actually know anything? His answer changed philosophy forever. James Watt. Walking across Glasgow Green, the idea came to him. A separate condenser. It made the steam engine practical. And started the Industrial Revolution. Joseph Black. He discovered latent heat. The principle that made refrigeration, steam power and thermodynamics possible. James Hutton. He looked at the rocks at Siccar Point. And understood the earth was unimaginably old. He invented geology. These men knew each other. They argued in the same taverns. Walked the same streets. In one generation, one small country invented economics, philosophy, geology, thermodynamics and the steam engine. The modern world runs on what they built. 🇬🇧 This is your history. Help us keep it alive. 👇 Be Part Of Us 👉 🙏 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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To my brothers and sisters, a call to action.. Please stand with the families of the Samourai Wallet developers. These men built privacy tools in a world that grows more hostile to privacy by the day. Now their families are carrying the weight of a fight they never asked for, while the machine tries to turn builders into criminals and make an example out of those who dared to defend financial sovereignty. Privacy is not a crime. Code is not a confession. Building tools for free men is not an act of evil. Support their families. Help them endure the fire. Because when the state comes for the builders of privacy, it is not only their door being kicked in. It is a warning shot aimed at every sovereign soul who still believes human beings have the right to transact, speak, build, and exist without being watched like cattle. Stand with them. Proof of work is not just mining. Sometimes it is standing beside the men who built the tools when the world turns cold. Sign the pardon petition, and donate.

To my brothers and sisters, a call to action.. Please stand with the families of the Samourai Wallet developers. These men built privacy tools in a world that grows more hostile to privacy by the day. Now their families are carrying the weight of a fight they never asked for, while the machine tries to turn builders into criminals and make an example out of those who dared to defend financial sovereignty. Privacy is not a crime. Code is not a confession. Building tools for free men is not an act of evil. Support their families. Help them endure the fire. Because when the state comes for the builders of privacy, it is not only their door being kicked in. It is a warning shot aimed at every sovereign soul who still believes human beings have the right to transact, speak, build, and exist without being watched like cattle. Stand with them. Proof of work is not just mining. Sometimes it is standing beside the men who built the tools when the world turns cold. Sign the pardon petition, and donate.

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🇬🇧 There is a village in Orkney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It is OLDER than the PYRAMIDS. Its stone furniture is still standing. A storm gave it back to us in 1850. Its name is Skara Brae. It sits on a curve of beach on Orkney. And it was built 5,000 years ago. By a people who farmed barley, kept cattle, and worked stone with the patience of a craftsman. They had no metal. And yet they built homes that have outlasted every empire since. 🏛️ Each home was made of stone. A hearth at the centre. A bed of stone slabs along each wall. A stone dresser facing the door. A drainage system carrying waste away from the walls. What we would now call indoor plumbing. 5,000 years before it appeared in any English home. Eight homes. Linked by stone passages. They lived there for 600 years. Their children played at the doors. Their dressers carried the best of what they made. The Grooved Ware they fired here would later be found from Orkney to the south coast. Five centuries of one settled people. Then the Earth changed. 🌍 The sand began to drift across the homes. A mother carried her child away from the only home she had known. The dunes closed over the village. In 1850, a storm hit Orkney. The wind stripped the sand from the dunes. And one of the homes appeared again. A village 5,000 years old, sitting in the open as if it had never left. The people of Skara Brae did not vanish. They became Britons. Their descendants became the British. And we are still building our homes around the hearth. Still arranging our shelves to face the door. Still carrying waste away from the walls. 5,000 years on, we are still living the same way they did. 🇬🇧 Civilisation did not come to Britain. Britons were already building it. And building it well. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This village was buried for 4,000 years. We nearly lost their own story. Help us put British history where it cannot be lost again. 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

🇬🇧 There is a village in Orkney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It is OLDER than the PYRAMIDS. Its stone furniture is still standing. A storm gave it back to us in 1850. Its name is Skara Brae. It sits on a curve of beach on Orkney. And it was built 5,000 years ago. By a people who farmed barley, kept cattle, and worked stone with the patience of a craftsman. They had no metal. And yet they built homes that have outlasted every empire since. 🏛️ Each home was made of stone. A hearth at the centre. A bed of stone slabs along each wall. A stone dresser facing the door. A drainage system carrying waste away from the walls. What we would now call indoor plumbing. 5,000 years before it appeared in any English home. Eight homes. Linked by stone passages. They lived there for 600 years. Their children played at the doors. Their dressers carried the best of what they made. The Grooved Ware they fired here would later be found from Orkney to the south coast. Five centuries of one settled people. Then the Earth changed. 🌍 The sand began to drift across the homes. A mother carried her child away from the only home she had known. The dunes closed over the village. In 1850, a storm hit Orkney. The wind stripped the sand from the dunes. And one of the homes appeared again. A village 5,000 years old, sitting in the open as if it had never left. The people of Skara Brae did not vanish. They became Britons. Their descendants became the British. And we are still building our homes around the hearth. Still arranging our shelves to face the door. Still carrying waste away from the walls. 5,000 years on, we are still living the same way they did. 🇬🇧 Civilisation did not come to Britain. Britons were already building it. And building it well. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This village was buried for 4,000 years. We nearly lost their own story. Help us put British history where it cannot be lost again. 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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1670, London. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Two men were arrested for preaching on a street. That was illegal. One of them was William Penn. They were put on trial at the Old Bailey. The judge told the jury to find them guilty. They said not guilty. He sent them back. They came back. Not guilty. He sent them back again. Not guilty. So the judge locked them up. No food. No water. No toilet. For two days. He brought them back into court. Starving. Exhausted. Humiliated. He asked for their verdict. Not guilty. The judge fined every juror. Eleven paid. One didn't. His name was Edward Bushel. He refused to pay. And he sued the judge. He won. The court ruled that no jury can be punished for its verdict. Ever. A jury answers to its conscience — not to the judge. That's still the law. Today. Because one Englishman refused to pay a fine. And twelve more who were starved, locked up, and humiliated. Still said no. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧 #proudofus

1670, London. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Two men were arrested for preaching on a street. That was illegal. One of them was William Penn. They were put on trial at the Old Bailey. The judge told the jury to find them guilty. They said not guilty. He sent them back. They came back. Not guilty. He sent them back again. Not guilty. So the judge locked them up. No food. No water. No toilet. For two days. He brought them back into court. Starving. Exhausted. Humiliated. He asked for their verdict. Not guilty. The judge fined every juror. Eleven paid. One didn't. His name was Edward Bushel. He refused to pay. And he sued the judge. He won. The court ruled that no jury can be punished for its verdict. Ever. A jury answers to its conscience — not to the judge. That's still the law. Today. Because one Englishman refused to pay a fine. And twelve more who were starved, locked up, and humiliated. Still said no. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧 #proudofus

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Why was there no alarm and limited water for the Lahaina Maui fire disaster? Tulsi Gabbard 🌺: "The alarms were not sounded because of this fire, and that was the number one question: Why wouldn't you sound the alarm system?" Joe Rogan: "Couldn't they send an alarm to your phone that says there is a fire?" Tulsi Gabbard 🌺: "They turned on their hoses, and it was just like dribbles of water. So, they are literally scooping water out of their toilet bowls and grabbing rainwater from buckets, trying to fight fires in their communities to save homes... There was a request that was put into the State to divert the water so it could be used to fight the fires, and there was some type of 6 or 8-hour delay before that decision was made... The fact that the people of Maui don't have control over their own water is exactly the problem. Both in this crisis but on a daily basis, where families are told county-wide there's a drought right now, you got to conserve water, be limited, don't wash your car, and all this. Meanwhile, they drive through one of these resorts, and they see all the sprinklers on for the golf courses and no restrictions whatsoever in the hotels, and it's no wonder why people over there are like, what's going on over here?"

Why was there no alarm and limited water for the Lahaina Maui fire disaster? Tulsi Gabbard 🌺: "The alarms were not sounded because of this fire, and that was the number one question: Why wouldn't you sound the alarm system?" Joe Rogan: "Couldn't they send an alarm to your phone that says there is a fire?" Tulsi Gabbard 🌺: "They turned on their hoses, and it was just like dribbles of water. So, they are literally scooping water out of their toilet bowls and grabbing rainwater from buckets, trying to fight fires in their communities to save homes... There was a request that was put into the State to divert the water so it could be used to fight the fires, and there was some type of 6 or 8-hour delay before that decision was made... The fact that the people of Maui don't have control over their own water is exactly the problem. Both in this crisis but on a daily basis, where families are told county-wide there's a drought right now, you got to conserve water, be limited, don't wash your car, and all this. Meanwhile, they drive through one of these resorts, and they see all the sprinklers on for the golf courses and no restrictions whatsoever in the hotels, and it's no wonder why people over there are like, what's going on over here?"

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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. 🇬🇧

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 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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🇬🇧 In 1670, 12 Englishmen REFUSED. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❌ To convict an innocent man. A London judge tried to break them. He locked them in a Newgate cell for 3 weeks. No food. No water. No light. No fire. They held the line. This is the story of Bushel's Case. On 14 August 1670, soldiers raided a Quaker meeting on Gracechurch Street, London. The Conventicle Act of 1664 had banned non-Anglican worship. The soldiers arrested William Penn, a young Quaker preacher, and his older companion William Mead. The charge: unlawful assembly. They were taken to the Old Bailey. 12 London merchants were sworn to judge them. The foreman was a merchant named Edward Bushel. The judge demanded guilty. The jury returned NOT GUILTY. The judge refused the verdict. He sent them back. They returned the same. And again. Three times. The judge fined each juror 40 marks in British pound sterling, or imprisonment. They refused to pay. He sent all 12 to Newgate. 3 weeks. No meat. No drink. No fire. No tobacco. They held the line. Edward Bushel applied for a writ of habeas corpus. The case came before Chief Justice Sir John Vaughan in the Court of Common Pleas. In November 1670, Vaughan ruled: No jury can be punished for its verdict. Ever. The 12 walked free. And every jury after them carried the line that 12 London merchants held in 1670. At the Old Bailey today, their names are carved into the wall. The stones remember. They were Englishmen. They held the line in spite of every opposing force. The British spirit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We built the world's freedoms. Charter by charter. Jury by jury. 12 held the line for us. Will you help hold the line for the next generation? 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

🇬🇧 In 1670, 12 Englishmen REFUSED. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❌ To convict an innocent man. A London judge tried to break them. He locked them in a Newgate cell for 3 weeks. No food. No water. No light. No fire. They held the line. This is the story of Bushel's Case. On 14 August 1670, soldiers raided a Quaker meeting on Gracechurch Street, London. The Conventicle Act of 1664 had banned non-Anglican worship. The soldiers arrested William Penn, a young Quaker preacher, and his older companion William Mead. The charge: unlawful assembly. They were taken to the Old Bailey. 12 London merchants were sworn to judge them. The foreman was a merchant named Edward Bushel. The judge demanded guilty. The jury returned NOT GUILTY. The judge refused the verdict. He sent them back. They returned the same. And again. Three times. The judge fined each juror 40 marks in British pound sterling, or imprisonment. They refused to pay. He sent all 12 to Newgate. 3 weeks. No meat. No drink. No fire. No tobacco. They held the line. Edward Bushel applied for a writ of habeas corpus. The case came before Chief Justice Sir John Vaughan in the Court of Common Pleas. In November 1670, Vaughan ruled: No jury can be punished for its verdict. Ever. The 12 walked free. And every jury after them carried the line that 12 London merchants held in 1670. At the Old Bailey today, their names are carved into the wall. The stones remember. They were Englishmen. They held the line in spite of every opposing force. The British spirit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We built the world's freedoms. Charter by charter. Jury by jury. 12 held the line for us. Will you help hold the line for the next generation? 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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In 1827, Michael Faraday told him to patent it. 🇬🇧 He refused. He thought the invention should belong to mankind. 🙏 His name was John Walker. An Englishman from Stockton-on-Tees. He had just invented the friction match. 🔥 Before him, fire was flint and steel. Tinder and patience. Every morning, in every home. After him, fire was one strike. ✨ Faraday personally travelled to Stockton and urged Walker to patent the design. Walker said no. He believed the invention should belong to mankind. 🙏🇬🇧 Others took the idea. They patented their own versions. They called them Lucifers. 😤 By 1830, Walker had stopped making matches. He had been out-competed by the men who took what he gave freely. He returned to being a chemist. He never asked for the fame his invention had won. He never married. He lived with his niece in Stockton. He died on the 1st of May 1859, aged 78. 🕊️ The credit only came after his death. He had given the world its instant flame. He had given it freely. He had asked for nothing. 🔥🙏 He was an Englishman who gave the world its instant flame. And he is one of many. 🇬🇧 Britain has given the world much. Most of it without a patent. Most of it without a fee. 🙏🇬🇧 Help us give our history to them too. 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

In 1827, Michael Faraday told him to patent it. 🇬🇧 He refused. He thought the invention should belong to mankind. 🙏 His name was John Walker. An Englishman from Stockton-on-Tees. He had just invented the friction match. 🔥 Before him, fire was flint and steel. Tinder and patience. Every morning, in every home. After him, fire was one strike. ✨ Faraday personally travelled to Stockton and urged Walker to patent the design. Walker said no. He believed the invention should belong to mankind. 🙏🇬🇧 Others took the idea. They patented their own versions. They called them Lucifers. 😤 By 1830, Walker had stopped making matches. He had been out-competed by the men who took what he gave freely. He returned to being a chemist. He never asked for the fame his invention had won. He never married. He lived with his niece in Stockton. He died on the 1st of May 1859, aged 78. 🕊️ The credit only came after his death. He had given the world its instant flame. He had given it freely. He had asked for nothing. 🔥🙏 He was an Englishman who gave the world its instant flame. And he is one of many. 🇬🇧 Britain has given the world much. Most of it without a patent. Most of it without a fee. 🙏🇬🇧 Help us give our history to them too. 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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Every morning they were herded into IRON-BARRED sheds. 🇬🇧🇦🇺 A foreman walked past like a dealer in a cattle market. Picking men. Choosing men. While the rest trampled each other for a day’s work. Five pence an hour. If you were lucky. This was London. 1889. The biggest port on earth. 100,000 men. No contracts. No guaranteed hours. Hired by the hour. Discarded by the hour. On 13 August a dispute over bonus pay on one ship sparked a walkout. 2,500 men. Then the whole port. A hundred thousand men. One demand. Sixpence an hour. The dockers’ tanner. They marched through the City of London carrying poles crowned with stinking fish heads and rotten onions. Their actual diet. Paraded through the richest streets in the world. Rich men and women leaned from hotel balconies and waved their handkerchiefs. But here’s where it nearly died. Five weeks in. The money was gone. 25,000 meal tickets a day couldn’t feed them all. The dock companies waited them out. Then money arrived from the other side of the WORLD. Australia. Dock workers in Brisbane heard what was happening. They held meetings every night across the country. They raised £30,000. Two thirds of the entire strike fund. Workers on the other side of the earth saved a strike in London. The dock companies caved. Sixpence an hour. Won. The victory march through Hyde Park was led by the Australian flag. Before the strike: 750,000 union members. Within ten years: over 2 million. Their union became the largest in the world. One penny more per hour. That’s all they asked for. And they changed EVERYTHING. They didn’t teach you about the men who marched with fish heads on sticks. They didn’t tell you workers on the other side of the earth saved them. We will.🇬🇧 Every donation keeps your history alive. Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Every morning they were herded into IRON-BARRED sheds. 🇬🇧🇦🇺 A foreman walked past like a dealer in a cattle market. Picking men. Choosing men. While the rest trampled each other for a day’s work. Five pence an hour. If you were lucky. This was London. 1889. The biggest port on earth. 100,000 men. No contracts. No guaranteed hours. Hired by the hour. Discarded by the hour. On 13 August a dispute over bonus pay on one ship sparked a walkout. 2,500 men. Then the whole port. A hundred thousand men. One demand. Sixpence an hour. The dockers’ tanner. They marched through the City of London carrying poles crowned with stinking fish heads and rotten onions. Their actual diet. Paraded through the richest streets in the world. Rich men and women leaned from hotel balconies and waved their handkerchiefs. But here’s where it nearly died. Five weeks in. The money was gone. 25,000 meal tickets a day couldn’t feed them all. The dock companies waited them out. Then money arrived from the other side of the WORLD. Australia. Dock workers in Brisbane heard what was happening. They held meetings every night across the country. They raised £30,000. Two thirds of the entire strike fund. Workers on the other side of the earth saved a strike in London. The dock companies caved. Sixpence an hour. Won. The victory march through Hyde Park was led by the Australian flag. Before the strike: 750,000 union members. Within ten years: over 2 million. Their union became the largest in the world. One penny more per hour. That’s all they asked for. And they changed EVERYTHING. They didn’t teach you about the men who marched with fish heads on sticks. They didn’t tell you workers on the other side of the earth saved them. We will.🇬🇧 Every donation keeps your history alive. Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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🇬🇧🔬 Open your kitchen drawer. Pick up a knife. The metal you are holding was invented by a Sheffield steelworker's son. His name was Harry Brearley. He was born in Sheffield in 1871. He left school at 12 and went to work in the same steelworks as his father. ⚙️ He educated himself in chemistry at night, by candlelight, in evening classes. By his early forties, he was running the Brown-Firth Research Laboratory. In 1912, the British military gave him a problem. Their rifle barrels were wearing out too quickly from the heat of repeated firing. They needed a steel that could survive higher temperatures. He was solving a different problem. On 13 August 1913, Brearley cast an alloy with 12.8% chromium. He took a polished sample. He left it on a workbench. Weeks later, he came back. 🔥 Every other sample had rusted. His one had not. A steel that would never rust. He took it to his employers. They were not interested. He took it to the Sheffield cutlers. They told him it could not be sharpened. The talk of the town was that Harry Brearley had invented a knife that would not cut. He persisted. ⚖️ He found a cutler called Ernest Stuart at the Portland Works who tested the steel with vinegar and lemon juice. The blade did not stain. Stuart suggested a new name for it. Not rustless steel. Stainless steel. Within a decade, Sheffield was the stainless steel capital of the world. Within a century, stainless steel was in every kitchen, every hospital, every operating theatre, every kitchen sink, every skyscraper, every spacecraft. 🚀 Harry Brearley never grew rich from his invention. He did not invent for money. He invented for the country. He died in 1948, still in Sheffield, still working class. ✍️ Every modern thing that does not rust began in a Sheffield laboratory. By accident. In the hands of a steelworker's son. 🇬🇧 The British write their own history. They always have. Help us remember who we are. Help us remember every British achievement. 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

🇬🇧🔬 Open your kitchen drawer. Pick up a knife. The metal you are holding was invented by a Sheffield steelworker's son. His name was Harry Brearley. He was born in Sheffield in 1871. He left school at 12 and went to work in the same steelworks as his father. ⚙️ He educated himself in chemistry at night, by candlelight, in evening classes. By his early forties, he was running the Brown-Firth Research Laboratory. In 1912, the British military gave him a problem. Their rifle barrels were wearing out too quickly from the heat of repeated firing. They needed a steel that could survive higher temperatures. He was solving a different problem. On 13 August 1913, Brearley cast an alloy with 12.8% chromium. He took a polished sample. He left it on a workbench. Weeks later, he came back. 🔥 Every other sample had rusted. His one had not. A steel that would never rust. He took it to his employers. They were not interested. He took it to the Sheffield cutlers. They told him it could not be sharpened. The talk of the town was that Harry Brearley had invented a knife that would not cut. He persisted. ⚖️ He found a cutler called Ernest Stuart at the Portland Works who tested the steel with vinegar and lemon juice. The blade did not stain. Stuart suggested a new name for it. Not rustless steel. Stainless steel. Within a decade, Sheffield was the stainless steel capital of the world. Within a century, stainless steel was in every kitchen, every hospital, every operating theatre, every kitchen sink, every skyscraper, every spacecraft. 🚀 Harry Brearley never grew rich from his invention. He did not invent for money. He invented for the country. He died in 1948, still in Sheffield, still working class. ✍️ Every modern thing that does not rust began in a Sheffield laboratory. By accident. In the hands of a steelworker's son. 🇬🇧 The British write their own history. They always have. Help us remember who we are. Help us remember every British achievement. 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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Britain had a wonder of the world. ⚔️🇬🇧 For 600 years, London Bridge wasn't a bridge. It was a street. A town. A city floating on the Thames. Construction began in 1176 and took 33 years. When it was finished it had 19 stone arches, a drawbridge to let ships through, and a chapel dedicated to Saint Thomas Becket at its heart. The starting point for every pilgrim walking to Canterbury. Then people started building on it. At its peak: 200 buildings. 500 residents. 🏘️ Haberdashers, booksellers, apothecaries, taverns and alehouses open from dawn. The longest inhabited bridge in Europe. You could walk halfway across and never know you were over a river. In 1212, three years after completion, a fire killed thousands on the bridge itself. 🔥 In 1282, five arches collapsed under winter ice. The arches slowed the Thames so much that in hard winters the river froze solid. Londoners held frost fairs on the ice. Bull-baiting. Pop-up taverns. A printing press operating on a frozen river. 🧊 Every time something went wrong, they rebuilt. London Bridge stood for 622 years. Then in 1831 they demolished it. The Victorian replacement lasted barely a century. By the 1960s it was sinking into the Thames. So the City of London sold it to an American for $2.46 million. 💰 He had it dismantled stone by stone and shipped to the Arizona desert. Where it still stands today. 🏜️ Britain had a wonder of the world on the Thames for six hundred years. We sold what replaced it to Arizona. Did they teach you that? We will. 🇬🇧 Proud Of Us is a community of ordinary British people keeping extraordinary British history alive. No ads. No sponsors. Just us. If that matters to you, join us at 🙏 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Britain had a wonder of the world. ⚔️🇬🇧 For 600 years, London Bridge wasn't a bridge. It was a street. A town. A city floating on the Thames. Construction began in 1176 and took 33 years. When it was finished it had 19 stone arches, a drawbridge to let ships through, and a chapel dedicated to Saint Thomas Becket at its heart. The starting point for every pilgrim walking to Canterbury. Then people started building on it. At its peak: 200 buildings. 500 residents. 🏘️ Haberdashers, booksellers, apothecaries, taverns and alehouses open from dawn. The longest inhabited bridge in Europe. You could walk halfway across and never know you were over a river. In 1212, three years after completion, a fire killed thousands on the bridge itself. 🔥 In 1282, five arches collapsed under winter ice. The arches slowed the Thames so much that in hard winters the river froze solid. Londoners held frost fairs on the ice. Bull-baiting. Pop-up taverns. A printing press operating on a frozen river. 🧊 Every time something went wrong, they rebuilt. London Bridge stood for 622 years. Then in 1831 they demolished it. The Victorian replacement lasted barely a century. By the 1960s it was sinking into the Thames. So the City of London sold it to an American for $2.46 million. 💰 He had it dismantled stone by stone and shipped to the Arizona desert. Where it still stands today. 🏜️ Britain had a wonder of the world on the Thames for six hundred years. We sold what replaced it to Arizona. Did they teach you that? We will. 🇬🇧 Proud Of Us is a community of ordinary British people keeping extraordinary British history alive. No ads. No sponsors. Just us. If that matters to you, join us at 🙏 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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