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Empire Day D. H. Montgomery

American historian David Montgomery explains why Britain’s Empire Day really was a cause for celebration.

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Engines of Progress Sir Bartle Frere

Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of Bombay, shared his excitement at the way railways were making Indians more independent.

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England Expects John Pasco

Lieutenant John Pasco not only flew the most famous signal in British history, he helped write it.

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England’s Lost Civilisation Orderic Vitalis

Orderic Vitalis regrets the passing of a society far more refined and advanced than that which supplanted it.

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English Spirit Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke told the House of Commons that the American colonies’ refusal to be dictated to by Westminster was the very spirit that had made the Empire great.

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Equal before the Law Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

Queen Victoria assured her subjects that there were no second-class citizens in her eyes.

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