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• There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual… — Gordon Brown
• We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty… — Gordon Brown
• The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very… — Simon Schama
• To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from… — Simon Schama
• 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
• I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British… — Heston Blumenthal
• The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered… — Robert Menzies
• In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have… — Simon Schama
• No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his… — Tony Benn
• The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic,… — James Nesbitt
• The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the… — Naomie Harris

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