You paid to end slavery. 🇬🇧 Britain borrowed twenty million pounds to free 800,000 people in 1833. 💷 The last of it was paid off in 2015. Your taxes. Your parents’. Your grandparents’. 👨‍👩‍👧 Then sixty years of warships hunting slave ships. 150,000 people freed. ⚓ Proudofus.uk Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Somewhere in Britain, right now, there’s a mind like his. Be the stranger with the tickets: proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

How much of your day was invented in Britain? More than you'd ever guess. 🇬🇧 Follow one ordinary family through one ordinary Friday. Six things ordinary Brits gave the world. They won't notice a single one. And the last one, just before bed, is the biggest of all. 🎥 The little lights down the middle of the road. 🚗 Invented by a mill lad who left school at thirteen. So the story goes, a cat on a fence saved his life. The stamp on the post. ✉️ Before 1840, the person receiving a letter paid for it. One letter could cost more than a day's wages. A servant girl handed hers back. It was blank. The marks on the outside were a code from her sweetheart. School for every child. 🏫 A cobbler in Portsmouth taught poor children for nothing. He won them over with hot baked potatoes. Saturday football. ⚽ Arsenal began with fifteen workers who chipped in sixpence each for a ball. 999. ☎️ Born out of one terrible night in London in 1935. A call for help that never got through. And the front door. 🚪 In 1762, four of the King's men forced their way into a schoolmaster's home. John Entick took them to court. The judge's answer: unless the law allows it, nobody comes in. Not even the King's men. Not one of them was a king. 👑 They teach you history is kings and parliaments. Not that your ordinary day was built by ordinary people. Watch the full story. 🎥 People like you built all of this once. We can build together again. Count yourself in: proudofus.co.uk Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧