In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest…

We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines…

— Gordon Brown

Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been…

— Simon Schama

Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually…

— David Cannadine

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

— Linda Colley

Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was…

— David Starkey

Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor…

— Linda Colley

“The period of which I write was an overshadowed one in British history, and especially in the history of the northern provinces. War was…

— Charlotte Brontë

If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit…

— Billy Bragg

Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable, loving relationship…

— David Cannadine

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not…

— Simon Schama

When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.

— Samuel Johnson

“Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for to his way…

— Russell A. Peck

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her…

— Tony Benn

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature;…

— Thomas Carlyle

Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute!…

— Rudyard Kipling