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While Egypt was building the pyramids, Britain was already running a mine. ⛏️🇬🇧 In a forest in Norfolk, the ground is covered in hollows. Hundreds of them. 🌲 The Anglo-Saxons thought a god had made them. They named the place after him. Grim's Graves. 👁️ They were wrong. People... made them. 🙌 No metal. No machines. Just deer antlers. And muscle. 🦌 They dug straight down through the chalk, over forty feet. Then crawled sideways in the dark, by hand, to reach the best black flint in the land. 🕯️ Up top, it was split into axes, arrowheads and knives. The tools that ran a whole way of life. 🪓 They didn't dig one mine. They dug over four hundred. For five hundred years. 🏔️ When archaeologists finally climbed down, the antler picks were still lying on the floor. As if the shift had only just ended. 😶 You can still climb down a ladder into one today. 🪜 They teach you Britain's story starts with the Romans. Not that we were digging mines while the pyramids were being built. 🇬🇧 We were makers before we even had a name. 🙏 Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧show more

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Darcy Dewarvor 5 Tagen

Bloody love your posts! ❤️‍🔥

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Thank you, glad you're enjoying them 🙏🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us! 🇬🇧🫡

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ms nobody…🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿vor 5 Tagen

@Lynda_1911 Proud of us 👍💪🇬🇧❤️.

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Proudofus.ukvor 5 Tagen

@Lynda_1911 As you should be. 🫡🙏🇬🇧

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ms nobody…🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿vor 5 Tagen

@Lynda_1911 Always… I was taught history in school, our history… it’s now being erased as if it never happened… love and appreciate your posts 🇬🇧❤️.

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We had a name, the Celts, and depending on the region you had a tribal name; Iceni, Brigantes, Silures, Caledonii etc.

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Proudofus.ukvor 5 Tagen

Great names, and they were ours 🙌 The Iceni, Brigantes and Silures are the names the Romans wrote down, around 2,000 years after these mines were dug. That's what blows our mind: the miners at Grime's Graves were working the chalk long before any of those names existed. Makers first, names later 🇬🇧

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James.P-2025vor 5 Tagen

We also have the Great Orme Copper Mines in North Wales, probably operating during the same kind of time period, and the copper from those mines has been found in axe heads all across europe. We were amazing people, shame our leaders have betrayed all that history so completely.

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Mrs.H.vor 5 Tagen

Love this. We have driven past the signpost for Grimes Graves often, and have always been intrigued to know more. Thank you!

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Proudofus.ukvor 5 Tagen

Next time, pull in! 🙌 You can climb down a ladder into one of the shafts, Greenwell's Pit, and stand where they dug 4,500 years ago. It's run by English Heritage, so check the opening times before you go 🇬🇧

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Mrs.H.vor 5 Tagen

I fancy that!

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Proudofus.ukvor 5 Tagen

Let us know how it goes! (A picture from down the shaft would be fantastic!) 🙏🇬🇧

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Mrs.H.vor 5 Tagen

I'll try,but you might have to wait quite some time!

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Proudofus.ukvor 5 Tagen

No need to rush, it's a drop in the ocean of 4000 years! 😅🙏

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CyberBob 😎vor 5 Tagen

We are builders we are pioneers, and that was taken away. Proud Of Us

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Proudofus.ukvor 5 Tagen

They could never take it away. It's just been temporarily forgotten. We are unstoppable. 🇬🇧

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CyberBob 😎vor 5 Tagen

Very true 🎯

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HAwarevor 5 Tagen

Mining Truth #CareForBritain

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Proudofus.ukvor 5 Tagen

Mining the truth, 4,500 years deep ⛏️🇬🇧

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simon greensladevor 5 Tagen

Can you do the 2 king Arthur's please

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Proudofus.ukvor 5 Tagen

On the list! Thanks for the suggestion. 🙏🇬🇧

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Shane Brennanvor 5 Tagen

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Georginavor 5 Tagen

Share far and wide folks Best educational and fun channel out there Remember Remember who you are Remember 😇

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Proudofus.ukvor 5 Tagen

Thank you Georgina 🙏 That's exactly why we do it. Remember who we are 🇬🇧

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kevin lampenvor 5 Tagen

When I was a kid around 8 years old in 1973 I lived 3 miles from grimes graves .. I used to go there and go into the chalk mines .. they had a metal lid that wasn't locked .. the temperature was very chilled

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Dallayexsinosvor 5 Tagen

I maintain that the Romans were wrong about the Britons name meaning, at the time of contact the Britons were known as far as Greece as master metal smiths, when the Britons tell them the ethnonym "Pretanni" they didnt mean "tattood people" i.e woad, they ment "the shapers"

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Rum River Sports Cards and Reviewsvor 5 Tagen

Did any of those axes survive today? Do the Brit’s still use black flint for anything today?

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Based Neanderthalvor 5 Tagen

Wow! Very interesting.

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Notes To Elonvor 5 Tagen

I'm not sure this is worthy of comparing to Egypt or Rome in this context. The 4th sentence is not understandable. After whom? The Anglo-Saxons (plural) that found them?

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I've been there a couple of times as a child. Did you know that flint and flint tools from there have been found widely, all over Europe?

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Aurimasvor 5 Tagen

I'm super white Indo-European immigrant. I'm here bit over 20 years And I'm sad what this country became. Or what atrocities browns did to your children. I'm partially political refugee And stil can say my homeland slowly recovering. But England still down the hill.

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Based Neanderthalvor 5 Tagen

Equally mind-blowing is how those flint nodules formed there. @Grok, What is the mechanism that explains flint nodules in chalk beds in Norfolk?

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Graham Binksvor 5 Tagen

I've climbed down. It was quiet and quite claustrophobic, but what an atmosphere! The workplace of our ancestors.

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Cronevor 5 Tagen

Been there, it's amazing. One of the chambers and an aerial shot from above. Digging rabbits turn up flints from below.

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Boscovor 5 Tagen

@THEDuaneCates Lolz. Look at your country now. Overrun and invaded.

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Gavvor 5 Tagen

You are the best subscription I ever bought. I need to go and visit these. Keep up the great work.

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SnoopDogevor 5 Tagen

‘Grimes graves’

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🇬🇧 You have been told Britain was a backwater before Rome. 🇬🇧 But people walked from the Alps to reach this island 2,400 years before Rome arrived. 🏔️ They came carrying gold no one in Britain had ever seen. 🪙👀 In 2002, Wessex Archaeology dug at Boscombe Down near Amesbury, Wiltshire. They opened the richest Bronze Age grave ever found in Britain. More than 100 objects buried with him. Five Beaker pots. Sixteen finely worked flint arrowheads. Copper knives. Stone wristguards. And two small folded sheets of gold. The earliest gold ever found in Britain. 🏛️ He was in his mid-forties. Robust. Broad-shouldered. And carrying an old wound. A leg infection that had bent his bones. And yet he had walked here. From what is now Switzerland. More than a thousand miles, walked on a damaged leg, to a country he had chosen. His teeth gave him up. Tooth enamel holds the chemistry of the water you drank as a child. And his chemistry was wrong for Britain. The strontium and oxygen pointed to the cold-climate valleys of the Alps. He was born more than a thousand miles east of where he died. But buried in Britain. He came to a people who had been here for thousands of years. Stonehenge was being completed. Bronze was new technology. A bronze-worker could become wealthy on these islands. He was not running from something. He had come toward something. And he stayed. 🇬🇧 The British were already here. Long before him. Long after him. They have been here for thousands of years. And they are still here. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Our story is older than his. Older than Rome. Older than the pyramids. Help us put our story where our children can find it. 👇🙏 👉 👈 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.🙏🇬🇧

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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🇬🇧 A British Bronze Age family sat down to dinner. Their house caught fire and fell into the marsh. Three thousand years on, their porridge is still in its bowl. Cambridgeshire. The Fenland. Around 1,000 BC, a British family had built a village on wooden stilts above the marsh. Nine round houses linked by a timber walkway. One evening they sat down to eat. 🔥 The thatch caught. The fire moved fast. They grabbed what they could and ran. Their footprints sank into the mud below the platform. The houses collapsed into the marsh. And the marsh held everything where it fell. Three thousand years later, Cambridge archaeologists drained the silt. The village rose back up. The bowl of porridge was still on the table, the wooden spoon still in it. The bread was still in the oven. The wheels were still in the shed. The dog was still by the fire. 🛞 Wheels of solid oak. Glass beads worked by hand. Finely woven cloth. Bronze axes and spears and sickles. Tools any modern carpenter would recognise. Britain's Bronze Age Pompeii. Excavated by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit in 2015 and 2016. A British family lived here. They were not primitive. They were us. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ British history is what we have all achieved on these islands. We tell the parts that get left out. We are funded by people who think it matters. Will you help us on our journey? 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

🇬🇧 A British Bronze Age family sat down to dinner. Their house caught fire and fell into the marsh. Three thousand years on, their porridge is still in its bowl. Cambridgeshire. The Fenland. Around 1,000 BC, a British family had built a village on wooden stilts above the marsh. Nine round houses linked by a timber walkway. One evening they sat down to eat. 🔥 The thatch caught. The fire moved fast. They grabbed what they could and ran. Their footprints sank into the mud below the platform. The houses collapsed into the marsh. And the marsh held everything where it fell. Three thousand years later, Cambridge archaeologists drained the silt. The village rose back up. The bowl of porridge was still on the table, the wooden spoon still in it. The bread was still in the oven. The wheels were still in the shed. The dog was still by the fire. 🛞 Wheels of solid oak. Glass beads worked by hand. Finely woven cloth. Bronze axes and spears and sickles. Tools any modern carpenter would recognise. Britain's Bronze Age Pompeii. Excavated by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit in 2015 and 2016. A British family lived here. They were not primitive. They were us. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ British history is what we have all achieved on these islands. We tell the parts that get left out. We are funded by people who think it matters. Will you help us on our journey? 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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You have walked past one of these and never known what it was. 🇬🇧 1,600 buildings across Britain. 36,000 people inside them tonight. 🛏️ Most of them built by people who died before any of us were born. ⚱️ The buildings are called almshouses. 🏛️ In the Lincolnshire town of Stamford, Browne's Hospital was built in 1485 by a wool merchant called William Browne. 🐑 He built it to house twelve elderly people who could not house themselves. Five hundred and forty years later, twelve elderly people are still living there. ⏳ It has never stopped. Browne was not alone. Some almshouses were built in the fourteen hundreds. Some in the fifteen hundreds. Some in the sixteen hundreds. A wool merchant. A bishop. A widow. A weaver. And many, many more. 🕯️ Each one looking at the people around them who had nothing, and deciding that something had to be built. Each one leaving their money to keep it open after they were gone. ✍️ Each building still standing. Each building still housing. 🏠 Six centuries of British people looking after each other. 🤝 Six centuries of homes still open to those who need them. 🚪 This is what Britain has always been. 🇬🇧 This is what we mean when we say we're proud of where we come from. 🙏 We are a growing community of British people, proud of an island that built a better life for everyone on it. And then for half the world. 🌍 The homes. The laws. The hospitals. The freedoms. Not waiting. Not asking. Building. 🧱 This is who we are. This is who we have always been. Find out more at Be part of us. 🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

You have walked past one of these and never known what it was. 🇬🇧 1,600 buildings across Britain. 36,000 people inside them tonight. 🛏️ Most of them built by people who died before any of us were born. ⚱️ The buildings are called almshouses. 🏛️ In the Lincolnshire town of Stamford, Browne's Hospital was built in 1485 by a wool merchant called William Browne. 🐑 He built it to house twelve elderly people who could not house themselves. Five hundred and forty years later, twelve elderly people are still living there. ⏳ It has never stopped. Browne was not alone. Some almshouses were built in the fourteen hundreds. Some in the fifteen hundreds. Some in the sixteen hundreds. A wool merchant. A bishop. A widow. A weaver. And many, many more. 🕯️ Each one looking at the people around them who had nothing, and deciding that something had to be built. Each one leaving their money to keep it open after they were gone. ✍️ Each building still standing. Each building still housing. 🏠 Six centuries of British people looking after each other. 🤝 Six centuries of homes still open to those who need them. 🚪 This is what Britain has always been. 🇬🇧 This is what we mean when we say we're proud of where we come from. 🙏 We are a growing community of British people, proud of an island that built a better life for everyone on it. And then for half the world. 🌍 The homes. The laws. The hospitals. The freedoms. Not waiting. Not asking. Building. 🧱 This is who we are. This is who we have always been. Find out more at Be part of us. 🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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The CELTS were here for A THOUSAND YEARS before Rome even looked at this island 🇬🇧⚔️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 We told you about Alfred. The king who hid in a swamp and saved a civilisation. But before Alfred. Before the Saxons. Before Rome ever set foot here. Someone was already here. The Celts. They didn't arrive with an invasion fleet. They came in waves, over centuries. They built hill forts that still scar the landscape today. Maiden Castle in Dorset. One of the largest in Europe. Built by hand. Defended by ditches so deep an army would break before it reached the walls. 🏔️ They were farmers. Metalworkers. Warriors. Their art? Swirling, intricate knotwork. They were making it two thousand years ago. They had druids. Priests, judges, keepers of knowledge. They memorised everything. Laws, history, medicine. Nothing written down. Carried in their heads. And when Rome came, the Celts didn't kneel. Boudica. Queen of the Iceni. The Romans flogged her. Attacked her daughters. She raised an army and burned Colchester, London, and St Albans to the ground. 🔥 The ash layer is still in the soil today. Rome won in the end. But it took them decades to control an island they thought would fall in weeks. And when Rome left in 410 AD, the Celts were still here. Their blood, their language, their stories. Woven into everything that came after. The Saxons. The Vikings. The Normans. All of them built on what the Celts had already laid down. Wales. Cornwall. Scotland. Ireland. Brittany. The Celtic world didn't vanish. It moved to the edges. And it held on. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍀 It's still holding on. So are we. 👉 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

The CELTS were here for A THOUSAND YEARS before Rome even looked at this island 🇬🇧⚔️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 We told you about Alfred. The king who hid in a swamp and saved a civilisation. But before Alfred. Before the Saxons. Before Rome ever set foot here. Someone was already here. The Celts. They didn't arrive with an invasion fleet. They came in waves, over centuries. They built hill forts that still scar the landscape today. Maiden Castle in Dorset. One of the largest in Europe. Built by hand. Defended by ditches so deep an army would break before it reached the walls. 🏔️ They were farmers. Metalworkers. Warriors. Their art? Swirling, intricate knotwork. They were making it two thousand years ago. They had druids. Priests, judges, keepers of knowledge. They memorised everything. Laws, history, medicine. Nothing written down. Carried in their heads. And when Rome came, the Celts didn't kneel. Boudica. Queen of the Iceni. The Romans flogged her. Attacked her daughters. She raised an army and burned Colchester, London, and St Albans to the ground. 🔥 The ash layer is still in the soil today. Rome won in the end. But it took them decades to control an island they thought would fall in weeks. And when Rome left in 410 AD, the Celts were still here. Their blood, their language, their stories. Woven into everything that came after. The Saxons. The Vikings. The Normans. All of them built on what the Celts had already laid down. Wales. Cornwall. Scotland. Ireland. Brittany. The Celtic world didn't vanish. It moved to the edges. And it held on. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍀 It's still holding on. So are we. 👉 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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🇬🇧 In a Welsh sea cave 33,000 years ago... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 A young man was buried by his people with red ochre and grave goods. It is the oldest formal burial ever found in Western Europe. 🇬🇧🇪🇺 Goat's Hole cave sits high in a Welsh sea cliff on the Gower Peninsula. Above the sea, beneath the headland. 33,000 years ago, this coast looked nothing like it does today. The sea was lower. The land was colder. The Bristol Channel was mammoth steppe. But the cave was already there. A young man died. He was around 21 years old. Slender. 🕯️ And his people prepared him. They wrapped him in cured hide. They covered him with red ochre — a pigment they used only for the dead. They placed grave goods beside him. A carved rod of mammoth ivory. Perforated wolf teeth. Periwinkle shells from the shore. They did not bury him quickly. They did not bury him alone. They did not bury him without his things. They buried him with grief. Time passed. The sea rose. The cliff stayed. And the young man slept. In 1823, the Reverend William Buckland of Oxford found the bones. And got everything about them wrong. He decided the bones belonged to a Roman-era prostitute. He called the burial the 🍎Red Lady of Paviland🍎 He was wrong on three counts. The bones were not Roman. They were Paleolithic. The bones were not female. They were male. And the bones were not a prostitute. They were a young man buried by his people with dignity and grief. The people who buried him did not vanish. Their descendants moved across these islands as the climate changed. They became Britons. Their descendants became the British. And the British still bury their dead with care. 🇬🇧 Dignity is one of the oldest things on these islands. And the people who feel it are still here. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Red Lady is not a lady. He is our oldest link to the world that made us. This video was made in Britain. So our children inherit what made us. We can't do it without you. 🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

🇬🇧 In a Welsh sea cave 33,000 years ago... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 A young man was buried by his people with red ochre and grave goods. It is the oldest formal burial ever found in Western Europe. 🇬🇧🇪🇺 Goat's Hole cave sits high in a Welsh sea cliff on the Gower Peninsula. Above the sea, beneath the headland. 33,000 years ago, this coast looked nothing like it does today. The sea was lower. The land was colder. The Bristol Channel was mammoth steppe. But the cave was already there. A young man died. He was around 21 years old. Slender. 🕯️ And his people prepared him. They wrapped him in cured hide. They covered him with red ochre — a pigment they used only for the dead. They placed grave goods beside him. A carved rod of mammoth ivory. Perforated wolf teeth. Periwinkle shells from the shore. They did not bury him quickly. They did not bury him alone. They did not bury him without his things. They buried him with grief. Time passed. The sea rose. The cliff stayed. And the young man slept. In 1823, the Reverend William Buckland of Oxford found the bones. And got everything about them wrong. He decided the bones belonged to a Roman-era prostitute. He called the burial the 🍎Red Lady of Paviland🍎 He was wrong on three counts. The bones were not Roman. They were Paleolithic. The bones were not female. They were male. And the bones were not a prostitute. They were a young man buried by his people with dignity and grief. The people who buried him did not vanish. Their descendants moved across these islands as the climate changed. They became Britons. Their descendants became the British. And the British still bury their dead with care. 🇬🇧 Dignity is one of the oldest things on these islands. And the people who feel it are still here. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Red Lady is not a lady. He is our oldest link to the world that made us. This video was made in Britain. So our children inherit what made us. We can't do it without you. 🙏 👉 👈 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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You were told the Anglo-Saxons were barbarians. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 They were not. They made gold-work as fine as anything continental Europe produced in the 7th century. 5 kilograms of it. Buried in a Staffordshire field for 1,300 years. In July 2009 a man named Terry Herbert went detecting on a working farm. He swept his detector across a ploughed field. And the headphones screamed. Gold. The largest Anglo-Saxon gold hoard ever found. 4,000 pieces. 5 kilograms of gold. 1.4 kilograms of silver. ⚔️ Almost all military fittings. Sword pommels. Helmet cheek-pieces. Shield mounts. Inlaid with 5,000 garnets. Garnets traded from as far as India. Filigree gold-work so fine modern goldsmiths have not been able to match it. 🔥 All of it deliberately broken. Sword pommels twisted off. Helmet pieces folded over. Crosses bent and crushed. The hoard is from the 7th century. The high Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. Stripped from the bodies of defeated enemies in a battle history did not write down. Or stripped from royal armour given as offerings before a campaign. Nobody knows which. But the broken gold sat in a Staffordshire field for 1,300 years. Until a metal detectorist swept across it. 🏛️ The Mercian kings have been forgotten. The battle that ended their warriors has no name. But the gold they wore was worked by British hands. And it is as fine as any gold-work of its century in Europe. 🇬🇧 You were told the Anglo-Saxons were barbarians... They were not. They were among the most accomplished goldsmiths of their age. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The gold waited 1,300 years to be found. The hands that worked it were British. Our work is made in Britain, for Britain. Help us find the rest. 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

You were told the Anglo-Saxons were barbarians. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 They were not. They made gold-work as fine as anything continental Europe produced in the 7th century. 5 kilograms of it. Buried in a Staffordshire field for 1,300 years. In July 2009 a man named Terry Herbert went detecting on a working farm. He swept his detector across a ploughed field. And the headphones screamed. Gold. The largest Anglo-Saxon gold hoard ever found. 4,000 pieces. 5 kilograms of gold. 1.4 kilograms of silver. ⚔️ Almost all military fittings. Sword pommels. Helmet cheek-pieces. Shield mounts. Inlaid with 5,000 garnets. Garnets traded from as far as India. Filigree gold-work so fine modern goldsmiths have not been able to match it. 🔥 All of it deliberately broken. Sword pommels twisted off. Helmet pieces folded over. Crosses bent and crushed. The hoard is from the 7th century. The high Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. Stripped from the bodies of defeated enemies in a battle history did not write down. Or stripped from royal armour given as offerings before a campaign. Nobody knows which. But the broken gold sat in a Staffordshire field for 1,300 years. Until a metal detectorist swept across it. 🏛️ The Mercian kings have been forgotten. The battle that ended their warriors has no name. But the gold they wore was worked by British hands. And it is as fine as any gold-work of its century in Europe. 🇬🇧 You were told the Anglo-Saxons were barbarians... They were not. They were among the most accomplished goldsmiths of their age. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The gold waited 1,300 years to be found. The hands that worked it were British. Our work is made in Britain, for Britain. Help us find the rest. 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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The oldest weapon ever found on Earth wasn't made in Africa. It wasn't made in the Middle East. It was made in Essex. 420,000 years ago. Before the pyramids. Before Stonehenge. Before any civilisation on Earth. Someone stood on a riverbank near Clacton-on-Sea, picked up a piece of yew wood, and carved a spear point using a flint tool. They chose yew — the strongest, most flexible wood in the forest. They scraped it smooth. Shaped it to a point. This wasn't an accident. This was engineering. In 1911, a man called Samuel Hazzledine Warren dug it out of a beach. He thought it was an antler. For decades, experts argued it couldn't be a weapon. The people who made it weren't clever enough, they said. Then in 1995, eight complete throwing spears were found in Germany. 300,000 years old. The debate was over. The Clacton Spear was confirmed as the oldest worked wooden weapon ever discovered. It sits in the Natural History Museum in London today. They tell you British history starts with the Romans. It doesn't. This land runs deep. 🇬🇧 Be part of us.👇 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

The oldest weapon ever found on Earth wasn't made in Africa. It wasn't made in the Middle East. It was made in Essex. 420,000 years ago. Before the pyramids. Before Stonehenge. Before any civilisation on Earth. Someone stood on a riverbank near Clacton-on-Sea, picked up a piece of yew wood, and carved a spear point using a flint tool. They chose yew — the strongest, most flexible wood in the forest. They scraped it smooth. Shaped it to a point. This wasn't an accident. This was engineering. In 1911, a man called Samuel Hazzledine Warren dug it out of a beach. He thought it was an antler. For decades, experts argued it couldn't be a weapon. The people who made it weren't clever enough, they said. Then in 1995, eight complete throwing spears were found in Germany. 300,000 years old. The debate was over. The Clacton Spear was confirmed as the oldest worked wooden weapon ever discovered. It sits in the Natural History Museum in London today. They tell you British history starts with the Romans. It doesn't. This land runs deep. 🇬🇧 Be part of us.👇 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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Britain bought eight hundred thousand slaves. In one purchase.🇬🇧🪙⛓️ If you paid British taxes before 2015, you helped them do it. The British Empire. 1833. England itself had rejected slavery over sixty years ago. But across the Empire, it was thriving. For decades, ordinary people had been fighting to end it. They signed petitions. They marched. They boycotted sugar picked by enslaved hands. Three hundred thousand families. They forced Parliament to listen. Years of legal battles lay ahead. The slave owners would fight every one. So Britain chose the fastest possible way. They bought them. Every single one. Twenty million pounds. Forty percent of the entire national budget. Then set them free. The loan was so large it took a hundred and eighty-two years to pay off. It was finally paid in 2015. If you paid taxes before that year, your money helped make that happen. The Treasury tweeted this in 2018. They called it a Friday fact. Then they deleted it. They were embarrassed by it. We think you should know. Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Britain bought eight hundred thousand slaves. In one purchase.🇬🇧🪙⛓️ If you paid British taxes before 2015, you helped them do it. The British Empire. 1833. England itself had rejected slavery over sixty years ago. But across the Empire, it was thriving. For decades, ordinary people had been fighting to end it. They signed petitions. They marched. They boycotted sugar picked by enslaved hands. Three hundred thousand families. They forced Parliament to listen. Years of legal battles lay ahead. The slave owners would fight every one. So Britain chose the fastest possible way. They bought them. Every single one. Twenty million pounds. Forty percent of the entire national budget. Then set them free. The loan was so large it took a hundred and eighty-two years to pay off. It was finally paid in 2015. If you paid taxes before that year, your money helped make that happen. The Treasury tweeted this in 2018. They called it a Friday fact. Then they deleted it. They were embarrassed by it. We think you should know. Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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Ladies and gentlemen, if we FIGHT the Russians, we will LOSE. We will LOSE hands down. It won't even be close. We do not have a military today that can fight a large-scale ground war in Europe. The Russians are some of the finest, most professional troops in the world. Why? Because in the 20 years that we were squandering our resources, hunting down goat herders and insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, they were focused on fighting us. Not because they want to fight us, but because we were promulgating policies that were pushing them into a corner where they had no choice to fight us.

Ladies and gentlemen, if we FIGHT the Russians, we will LOSE. We will LOSE hands down. It won't even be close. We do not have a military today that can fight a large-scale ground war in Europe. The Russians are some of the finest, most professional troops in the world. Why? Because in the 20 years that we were squandering our resources, hunting down goat herders and insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, they were focused on fighting us. Not because they want to fight us, but because we were promulgating policies that were pushing them into a corner where they had no choice to fight us.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Chapter One. The Beginning of the End. This is the story of how ordinary British people ended slavery. It starts here. In 1086. William the Conqueror had just seized England by force. His first act was to count everyone in it. What the 'Domesday Book' revealed was extraordinary. More than seventy percent of the people on this island belonged to someone else. Not slaves. But not free. Serfs. Bound to the land from birth. Unable to leave. Unable to own property. Their children inherited their chains automatically. Then in 1348, the Black Death arrived. Within two years it had killed nearly half the population of England. Villages emptied overnight. And the survivors realised something the lords had hoped they never would. They had power. They demanded wages. They walked off the land. They refused to return on the old terms. Parliament passed a law in 1351 to force them back. The people ignored it. In 1381, sixty thousand ordinary people marched on London. They burned the records that proved their bondage. They demanded to be treated as human beings. The king rode out, made promises, then broke every one of them. The leaders were hunted down and executed. But serfdom never recovered. Without a single law. Without a king declaring it so. Over the next hundred years it quietly collapsed. The English simply stopped accepting it. By 1500 it was dead. Three hundred years before France. Nearly four hundred before Russia. This was the character being forged. On this soil. By ordinary people who refused to stay down. And they were just getting started. 🇬🇧 Their individual stories are on our page. Our book is coming soon. Help us make this possible. Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Chapter One. The Beginning of the End. This is the story of how ordinary British people ended slavery. It starts here. In 1086. William the Conqueror had just seized England by force. His first act was to count everyone in it. What the 'Domesday Book' revealed was extraordinary. More than seventy percent of the people on this island belonged to someone else. Not slaves. But not free. Serfs. Bound to the land from birth. Unable to leave. Unable to own property. Their children inherited their chains automatically. Then in 1348, the Black Death arrived. Within two years it had killed nearly half the population of England. Villages emptied overnight. And the survivors realised something the lords had hoped they never would. They had power. They demanded wages. They walked off the land. They refused to return on the old terms. Parliament passed a law in 1351 to force them back. The people ignored it. In 1381, sixty thousand ordinary people marched on London. They burned the records that proved their bondage. They demanded to be treated as human beings. The king rode out, made promises, then broke every one of them. The leaders were hunted down and executed. But serfdom never recovered. Without a single law. Without a king declaring it so. Over the next hundred years it quietly collapsed. The English simply stopped accepting it. By 1500 it was dead. Three hundred years before France. Nearly four hundred before Russia. This was the character being forged. On this soil. By ordinary people who refused to stay down. And they were just getting started. 🇬🇧 Their individual stories are on our page. Our book is coming soon. Help us make this possible. Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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2,000 years ago, ordinary Britons moved a million tonnes of chalk by hand. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 They raised the largest Iron Age hillfort in Britain, and you can still walk its ramparts today. On the chalk downland of Dorset, the British tribe of the Durotriges built Maiden Castle. Generations of them cut 3 concentric ramparts into the chalk by hand, each up to 30 feet high. Inside, a town of roundhouses, granaries and smithies. In AD 43, a Roman legion marched on it. In the eastern gateway, archaeologists later found a war cemetery. At least 14 of the bodies show wounds from blade and bolt. One man still has a Roman ballista bolt lodged in his spine. One woman bears a sword wound at her neck. They were buried with care, by their own people. Recent re-analysis suggests the burials may span generations rather than a single battle. What is not in doubt is the scale of what the Durotriges built, the violence of the age, and the dignity of how they buried their dead. And they did not vanish. They stayed on the land. Their chalk still holds the ramparts above Dorchester today. We tell the parts of our history that get left out, free, for anyone who wants them. If you can afford to, help us teach thousands their own history: Want to learn more? Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

2,000 years ago, ordinary Britons moved a million tonnes of chalk by hand. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 They raised the largest Iron Age hillfort in Britain, and you can still walk its ramparts today. On the chalk downland of Dorset, the British tribe of the Durotriges built Maiden Castle. Generations of them cut 3 concentric ramparts into the chalk by hand, each up to 30 feet high. Inside, a town of roundhouses, granaries and smithies. In AD 43, a Roman legion marched on it. In the eastern gateway, archaeologists later found a war cemetery. At least 14 of the bodies show wounds from blade and bolt. One man still has a Roman ballista bolt lodged in his spine. One woman bears a sword wound at her neck. They were buried with care, by their own people. Recent re-analysis suggests the burials may span generations rather than a single battle. What is not in doubt is the scale of what the Durotriges built, the violence of the age, and the dignity of how they buried their dead. And they did not vanish. They stayed on the land. Their chalk still holds the ramparts above Dorchester today. We tell the parts of our history that get left out, free, for anyone who wants them. If you can afford to, help us teach thousands their own history: Want to learn more? Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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