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There's a road in England older than the pyramids. 🏜️ You can still walk it today. 🥾 It's called the Ridgeway. Eighty-seven miles of white chalk along the tops of the downs. 🇬🇧 Five thousand years ago, traders carried flint axes along it. ⛰️ At that moment, there wasn't a single pyramid in Egypt. 🐐 A tomb of giant stones was already standing beside it. It's still there. 🪨 A Viking army marched down it to take Wessex. A prince barely in his twenties stood in their way. ⚔️ At school they teach you about Roman roads. 🏛️ They never tell you this one was three thousand years old when the Romans landed. 🤯 No king built it. 👑 So how has it survived five thousand years? 🤔 That's who we are. 🙏 Every Proud Of Us film is free, made by people who want Britain to know its own story. 🎬 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

In 2012, a man sat at a small desk in the middle of the Olympic stadium and typed four words. 🏟️ "This is for everyone." 💡 It was Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The man who invented the World Wide Web. 🌐 He could have made every person on earth pay to use it. 💷 He made sure it was free. 🇬🇧 He wasn't the first British inventor to make that choice. Not even close. ⚖️ 1796. A Gloucestershire doctor proves a way to stop smallpox, a disease that killed three in every ten people who caught it. 💉 He could have kept his method secret and made a fortune. He printed it for anyone to read. 📜 1812. Ninety-two men and boys die in an explosion at a pit near Gateshead. ⛏️ Humphry Davy builds a lamp that can burn safely in the gas. He's urged to patent it. He refuses. 🔦 His young assistant, a blacksmith's son, goes on to build the first electric motor. Then he shows the world exactly how he did it. ⚡ In Glasgow, a surgeon stops infection killing his patients. He publishes his method for every surgeon on earth to use. 🩺 In wartime Oxford, a team turns a mould into a medicine that would save millions. Their leader refuses to patent it. 🧫 You've heard their names. You've probably never heard the choice they made. 🤔 Look around your home. 🏠 The little round scar on your grandad's arm. The switch on your wall. The cream on a grazed knee. The medicine in the cupboard. The screen you're reading this on. 📱 They knew their inventions would change the world. 🌍 So they made sure the world could have them. 🙏 Ordinary people, just like you, helped make it happen. 🇬🇧 Every Proud Of Us film is free, because people like you make it happen too. 🎬 Will you help make the next one? ☝️ Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧