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'The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades when speaking fails'.
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🎨Arantza Sestayo
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When you go home
Tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow
We gave our today
The words of the Kohima Epitaph will be read at Remembrance ceremonies across the world, but did you know the origins of the text came from a wartime codebreaker?
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This was a joy to record and I hope it brings some comfort. I don’t want you afraid, just a bit readier so put us in your ears 👂 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,
Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon
To stand 's auspicious mistress.
- King Lear [II, 1]
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Love is a star to every wandering bark
Sonnet 116
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🎨Konstantin Vasilyev
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Hamlet
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📷Tina Modotti
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For all the day they view things unrespected; But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee, And, darkly bright, are bright in dark directed. Sonnet 43
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🎨Corine Ko
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Reports dropping that Robert pattinson screen-tested for james bond completely changes everything.
If producers are looking at actors in their 40s, the "under 30" age rule is officially dead and it clears the path for henry cavill to finally play the role he was born for.
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There's a road in England older than the pyramids. 🏜️
You can still walk it today. 🥾
It's called the Ridgeway. Eighty-seven miles of white chalk along the tops of the downs. 🇬🇧
Five thousand years ago, traders carried flint axes along it. ⛰️
At that moment, there wasn't a single pyramid in Egypt. 🐐
A tomb of giant stones was already standing beside it. It's still there. 🪨
A Viking army marched down it to take Wessex. A prince barely in his twenties stood in their way. ⚔️
At school they teach you about Roman roads. 🏛️
They never tell you this one was three thousand years old when the Romans landed. 🤯
No king built it. 👑
So how has it survived five thousand years? 🤔
That's who we are. 🙏
Every Proud Of Us film is free, made by people who want Britain to know its own story. 🎬
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
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Honoured to receive the Outstanding Contribution to Music award tonight here at the @thisismcrawards - thank you all!
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Every day, you use the names of dead Britons. 🇬🇧
You just never knew they were people.
Your wellies? The man who beat Napoleon. 🥾
Your mac? A Glasgow chemist who made cloth waterproof. ☔
Your plimsolls? An MP who fought the owners of overloaded ships. ⚓
The tarmac outside? A road builder from Ayr. 🛣️
Seven Britons. One ordinary day.
They teach you the steam engine.
Not that James Watt's name is on every electricity bill you pay. ⚡
The world runs on British names. It just forgot they were people.
Watch the full story. 🎥
Their names are everywhere. Their stories aren't. Help us tell them: Proudofus.co.uk/support
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧






























