“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
The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
“Redmond Howard, a politically aware witness to the Rising and a critic of the rebels, wrote in its aftermath: 'There never was,… — Tim Pat Coogan Copy Share Image
A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
An unprecedented number of uniformed males, marching, parading and engaging in mock battles in every region of Great Britain brought a pleasant… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In the early 21st century, it is easy to condemn the Bond books for being racist and imperialist, sexist and misogynist, elitist… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean,… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole… — Christopher Hibbert Copy Share Image
Royal relationships across the generations have often been strained and distant, rather than close and affectionate. Most eldest sons, interminably waiting to… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“Sir Winston Churchill was born into the respected family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His mother Jeanette, was an attractive American-born British… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
There's a great book called 'Britain's Black Past' edited by Gretchen Gerzina. It has a myriad of stories and angles on black… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay… — Susan Brigden Copy Share Image
For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Of all the memorable phrases that have been minted and mobilised to describe modern British royalty, 'constitutional monarchy' is virtually the only… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General (1645 – 1647) by Stewart Stafford ‘Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live’ – Exodus, Nor allow… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
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