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Wilberforce told her to wait. 🇬🇧 Eight hundred thousand people didn't have time to wait. Her name was Elizabeth Heyrick. A Quaker from Leicester. In 1824 she published a pamphlet. Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition. Then she went door to door through Leicester visiting every grocer. Within a year a quarter of the city had stopped buying slave-grown sugar. Wilberforce tried to suppress her pamphlet. He told the movement not to speak at women's meetings. The women's societies were supplying a fifth of all the movement's funding. In 1830 the Anti-Slavery Society voted for immediate abolition. Frederick Douglass called her the first to demand it. She died in 1831. Two years before the Act passed. Her name is not on the monument. 🇬🇧 This channel exists because people like you chose to make it happen. Thousands of stories like this one are waiting to be told. Battles won. Names forgotten. History that belongs to all of us but gets told to none of us. If you want to be part of keeping it alive: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Free for 270 years. Nobody ever asks why. 🇬🇧 In 1753 a British doctor called Hans Sloane died. He left 71,000 objects to the nation. On one condition. It must be free. For everybody. Forever. Parliament raised the money through a national lottery. And built the world’s first public museum. Not for the King. Not for the Church. For all of humanity. The idea was simple. Human history belongs to all of humanity. Not just the powerful. Not just a few. For everyone. 270 years later it still hasn’t charged a penny. 8 million objects. Two million years of human history. The Rosetta Stone. The Lewis Chessmen. The Sutton Hoo helmet. All of it free. Still today. The idea Britain invented in 1753 changed how the entire world keeps its history. This channel exists because people like you chose to make it happen. Thousands of stories like this one are waiting to be told. Battles won. Names forgotten. History that belongs to all of us but gets told to none of us. If you can afford to help keep it free for everyone else: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@Trix81 @antmiddleton @MyArrse Shot four times in the skull not enough outrage for you?

@antmiddleton @MyArrse Where’s the outrage @antmiddleton - on the same level as if they were brown?

Two Dangerous British National men are jailed for life for raping a baby multiple times at Cambridge Crown Court. Judge called them an extreme danger to children.

@NUFCBlogcouk Crying out for this lad in midfield

🍻 PUB DEBATE ⚫️⚪️ You can have any former Newcastle player (other than Alan Shearer!) back in this Newcastle United team in their prime. Who are you picking and why? 🤔 #NUFC

🔎 T5 u23 midfield seasons since 2018 w/: - 900+ minutes - 2+ aerial duels won p90 - 55%+ aerial duel % - 80%+ fwd pass % 🇪🇸 Rodri '18/19 🇫🇷 Aurelien Tchouameni '22/23 🇪🇸 Martin Zubimendi '20/21 🇫🇷 Eduardo Camavinga '21/22 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lewis Miley '25/26 I am so serious about him being one of the best midfielders of the coming generation on the basis of ability x endangered archetype. Notice how all the other examples are more physical midfielders when they played in a less physical league, and Miley is doing it in the PL at 19. So so so serious.

What if? Whit if Eric Cartman from South Park joined Guns N Roses? 🤣🤣🤣🤘

Love it 🤣🤣🤣

Wow! Unreal what this lad just did 👇🏻

How many lives have these saved?

@IainJenkins15 @milevans_ Yes, you!

@milevans_ X that by 97. Then you’ll understand

Nobody should ever go to the football and not return home. Devastating news💔

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Before 1830, nobody had a lawn. The rich had their grass cut by scythemen. Ordinary people had no garden worth speaking of. Edwin Budding was an engineer in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Working in a textile mill, he noticed a machine using a cutting cylinder to trim the surface of cloth. He looked at it. And thought about grass. He built a machine with a cutting cylinder mounted on a wheeled frame. Then pushed it across his garden at midnight. At midnight. So the neighbours wouldn't see. It worked. He patented it in August 1830. Within twenty years the Victorian suburb was born. The striped lawn. The neat garden. The Sunday morning ritual. Every suburban garden in America. Every cricket ground. Every football pitch. Every golf course on earth. Traces back to one man. In Stroud. With a cloth machine. At midnight. Right now, somewhere in the world, someone is cutting their grass. And they have no idea who Edwin Budding was. Help us share more of our history: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 In the second half of the eighteenth century, something happened in Scotland. A country of one and a half million people. Produced ideas that changed the entire world. In one generation. Adam Smith. He wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776. He invented economics. David Hume. He asked the question nobody had dared ask. How do we actually know anything? His answer changed philosophy forever. James Watt. Walking across Glasgow Green, the idea came to him. A separate condenser. It made the steam engine practical. And started the Industrial Revolution. Joseph Black. He discovered latent heat. The principle that made refrigeration, steam power and thermodynamics possible. James Hutton. He looked at the rocks at Siccar Point. And understood the earth was unimaginably old. He invented geology. These men knew each other. They argued in the same taverns. Walked the same streets. In one generation, one small country invented economics, philosophy, geology, thermodynamics and the steam engine. The modern world runs on what they built. 🇬🇧 This is your history. Help us keep it alive. 👇 Be Part Of Us 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 🙏 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

A doctor drank a petri dish of bacteria to prove every expert wrong. He won the Nobel Prize. In 1982, every doctor on earth knew stomach ulcers were caused by stress and spicy food. Patients were put on antacids for life. Zantac alone was a billion-dollar drug. Nobody questioned it. Then Barry Marshall and Robin Warren found a spiral bacterium called H. pylori living in the stomachs of ulcer patients. They said bacteria caused ulcers. The medical establishment laughed. Bacteria can't survive in stomach acid. Papers rejected. Mocked at conferences. So in 1984, Marshall drank a broth of H. pylori. Within days he was vomiting with severe gastritis. He biopsied his own stomach and proved the bacteria were there, destroying the lining. Then he cured himself with a two-week course of antibiotics. A two-week course of pills replaced a lifetime of antacids. The cure was cheaper than the disease. And that was the problem. The antacid industry was worth billions. A cheap cure was bad for business. It took a decade for the medical establishment to accept what Marshall had already proven with his own body. In 2005, Marshall and Warren won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Millions of ulcer patients are now cured with antibiotics instead of managed with pills for life. He poisoned himself to save millions. They called him crazy. Follow the money. Question everything. #NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #QuestionEverything #FollowTheMoney #BigPharma

🇬🇧 When he died in Africa, his servants cut out his heart. And buried it under a tree. Because he belonged to Africa. David Livingstone was born in a one-room tenement in Blantyre, Scotland. He started working in a cotton mill at ten years old. He propped books up on the loom while he worked. He put himself through medical school. He went to Africa as a doctor. And he saw something he recognised. The Arab slave trade. 80,000 people taken every year. He had grown up knowing what exploitation looked like. He couldn't unknow it. He walked thousands of miles to document it. On 15 July 1871, Arab traders opened fire on a packed marketplace at Nyangwe. 300 people killed. Livingstone wrote in his journal: "It gave me the impression of being in Hell." He died on 1 May 1873. Alone in a hut in Zambia. On his knees in prayer. His servants Chuma and Susi cut out his heart and buried it under a tree. Then carried his body 1,000 miles over nine months through hostile territory. So Britain could have him back. Weeks after the news reached Zanzibar, the Sultan signed the Frere Treaty. The largest remaining slave market in the world closed. Forever. An Anglican cathedral now stands on the exact spot. The altar is built over the whipping post. His body is in Westminster Abbey. The inscription reads: Brought by faithful hands over land and sea. We are trying to do the same thing. And because of our community... We are doing it.🙏 Be Part Of Us: 👉proudofus.co.uk/support 👈 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Britain. 1943. The war was being fought on every front. But the coal mines were failing. Without coal there was no steel. No ships. No weapons. A hundred thousand miners had left for the front. So Ernest Bevin announced a solution. Every tenth man called up for military service would not go to war. He would go underground. The ballot was random. No exceptions. No appeals. University students. Office workers. Farmers’ sons. Forty-eight thousand of them. They were called the Bevin Boys. None of them had ever been in a mine. The tunnels were four feet high. The coal had to be cut by hand. Six days a week. Ten hours a day. Some were injured. Some were killed. They received no campaign medals. No recognition whatsoever. But they kept the steel mills running. The ships sailing. The weapons being made. They kept Britain in the war. When the war ended, most were not released for months. Some were refused their old jobs when they came back. For decades they were not eligible for veteran status. It took until 1995 for them to receive formal recognition. Forty-eight thousand young men who went down instead of going to war. That is your history. And almost no one is telling you. 🇬🇧 Proud Of Us is funded entirely by our own community. No sponsors. No advertisers. Help us keep our history alive. proudofus.co.uk Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Take that!

@ITFCFan1878 @IpswichTown Fanny

Rank! 🤮🤮🤣🤣

Spot on. What ya think??

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 1829. Five machines. One mile of track. The world was never the same. 🚂 In October 1829 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway held a competition. The world's first inter-city passenger railway was nearly built. Nobody knew what should pull the trains. The directors wanted stationary engines fixed to the ground. Hauling carriages with cables. George Stephenson disagreed. The directors said: prove it. A £500 prize. One mile of level track. Rainhill, Lancashire. Ten entered. Five showed up. One was powered by a horse. 🐴 The crowd favourite was the Novelty. Small, elegant, built in London. Never tested on a real railway before the day. Then there was Sans Pareil. Heavy, dark, powerful. Built in Shildon, County Durham. And the Rocket. Built in Newcastle by Robert Stephenson. George's 26-year-old son. Quietly confident. The Novelty went first. The crowd erupted. Then its boiler joints failed. Then failed again. Sans Pareil ran powerfully. Then its cylinder cracked. The Rocket kept running. Day after day. Run after run. Hauling thirteen tons. Then on the morning of the 8th of October they uncoupled the load. And the Rocket ran free. Thirty-two miles an hour. 🚂 The crowd had never seen anything move that fast. The Rocket was the only locomotive to complete the trials. £500 prize. And the contract to build every locomotive for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. One year later the railway opened. A Member of Parliament stepped onto the track. William Huskisson, the railway's most passionate supporter, became the world's first railway fatality. The railway opened anyway. History doesn't pause. The Rocket became the template for every steam locomotive built for 150 years. Within twenty years Britain had six thousand miles of railway. It started in a field in Lancashire. With one family from Newcastle who believed a locomotive could win. Did you know this story? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Nobody thought a locomotive could do it. One family from Newcastle proved them wrong. We tell the stories because we think they matter. Be Part Of Us. 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧