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They told you this country has nothing to be proud of. They were wrong. 🇬🇧 2,300 years ago, Greek explorer Pytheas of Massalia sailed to these islands. He found Cornish tin miners already trading with the ancient world, and Stonehenge, built before the pyramids of Giza. He named us Pretannike. The Painted Isles. Britain. That's a snippet of who we were. Here is what we built: 🍎 Isaac Newton, a farmer's son from Lincolnshire, gave us the laws of the universe. ⚡ Michael Faraday, a blacksmith's son from Surrey, made electricity usable. 💉 Edward Jenner, a country doctor from Gloucestershire, gave the world vaccination. 🧫 Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin, saving over 200 million lives. 💻 Alan Turing broke the Enigma code at Bletchley Park. 🚂 Charles Babbage & George Stephenson pioneered the computer and the railway. 🌐 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He could have patented it and become the richest person alive. He gave it away for free. We are the ordinary people who forced the most powerful empire on Earth to end slavery. Not once, but twice: 📜 The Slave Trade Act 1807 📜 The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 Then, we sent the Royal Navy to enforce it globally. The West Africa Squadron patrolled for 60 years. They captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 people. 7,000 British sailors died doing it. Nobody asked them to. No other nation joined them. They did it anyway.🇬🇧🫡 That's a snippet of what we chose to do. Here is what we gave the world: ⚖️ Magna Carta (1215) & Habeas Corpus 🏛️ Parliamentary Democracy 🌍 Common Law, now used by 80 countries and 3 billion people 🤝 The Commonwealth. 56 nations. They weren't forced to stay. They chose to join. We are on a mission to bring back our glorious history. Not to pretend we never did wrong, but to show the enormous amount of right. Every fact verifiable. Every claim true. We are Britain. We are mighty. Every video we make is funded by people who believe our history is worth saving. Stand with us: proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧