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Rule Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves! Britons never, never, never will be slaves. | Catalogue of all things British Empire | DM’s Open for Submissions
The Empire
Joined February 2025
It took winning the two most devastating wars in human history to destroy the British Empire. Remember that.
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“As we study the British Empire’s destiny, we are bound to think of it less as a human achievement than as an instrument of Divine Providence for the promotion of the progress of mankind.” - Stanley Baldwin (1929)
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The Duke of Cornwall and York opens the first federal Parliament of Australia (1901)
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A good measure of someone’s intelligence is whether they like or dislike the British Empire.
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King George V poses for a photograph with his son Prince Edward, the future King Edward VIII (1914)
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Seeing this breaks my heart. He fought for a Britain that no longer exists. The Empire is gone, our place in the world the lowest it’s been for centuries, our economy failing, need i go on? By every metric Britain is worse now than it was then. Was it worth it?
'What we fought for was our freedom, even now [the country] is worse than it was when I fought for it,' says 100-year-old World War II Veteran Alec Penstone.
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“We are loyal to the Empire first and foremost because we are of the British Race.” - Billy Hughes (1917)
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“Portrait of James Cook” - Nathaniel Dance-Holland (c.1775) On this day in 1728 Captain James Cook was born in Marton, Yorkshire.
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“God has endowed the British Race with a worldwide empire, that they may execute his sovereign purpose in the world. The victories you will have over the heathen are the victories of the nobler soul in man” - The Four Feathers (2002)
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Lord Kitchener enters Khartoum after the Battle of Omdurman (1898)
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King George VI wearing his uniform as Admiral of the Fleet (1937)
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“Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot!” Happy Guy Fawkes Day!
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The colour and pageantry of the Coronation procession. Detachment of the Foot Guards marching along Oxford Street into Oxford Circus (1953)
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Poster celebrating the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary (1911)
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What’s better than the British Empire? That’s right. Nothing.
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“A Help to Victory on Empire Day from the Boys & Girls of the Empire” WW1 Patriotic Postcard (1917)
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This is quite possibly the stupidest thing i have read on this app. This is quite literally genocide rhetoric. The British people exist and are indigenous to the British Isles. That is a fact.
@lucyjaynewhite1 The British Isles has no indigenous people
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