Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors… — D. J. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Who said the British empire was gone?! When I travel around the world and see and hear the English language everywhere, I… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for to… — Russell A. Peck Copy Share Image
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“[W]hen we kill people,’ a British sea-captain says in the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, ‘we feel compelled to pretend… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived.… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon… — Kenneth O. Morgan Copy Share Image
Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
These men were very much in the minority, but of course, being the 'Elect', they expected to be in a minority -… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you.… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
“Then you are no longer afraid of death, Your Majesty?” the lady asked, awed at the queen’s adventures. “No, I am no… — Constance Jagodzinski Copy Share Image
At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
![“[W]hen we kill people,’ a British sea-captain says in the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, ‘we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.’ I cannot presume to write on behalf of…” quote by Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/01a/shashi-tharoor-2698_british-empire_w-hen-we-kill-people-a-british-sea-capta_1208063.jpg)
