Aggression Quote by Linda Colley

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

“England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen.”

— Len Deighton

In both world wars, Britain understood that our national sovereignty could only endure if we cooperated with other nations. That our fate is inexorably…

— Ed Davey

The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade…

— Jeremy Corbyn

Britain is not homogenous; it was never a society without conflict. The English fought tooth and nail over everything we know of as English…

— Stuart Hall

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

— Stephen Gardiner

It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I…

— John Amery

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

— Simon Schama

Britain cannot afford to cut itself off from what is going on in the world, we are too interconnected with what is going on,…

— George Osborne

It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious civil war, not a nationalistic movement.

— Diana Gabaldon

“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

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