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Contains current news and timeless opinions about British scientists, artists, heroes & adventurers, sporting types, and designers; British history and culture: the creators and defenders of democracy, the role of Judeo-Christianity, representative government, and the rule of just law; freedom of religion, and freedom of speech. . .

Faith in Freedom »

To create representative government and the rule of just law, British men and women fought for and defended the Charter of Liberties, the Westminster Council, Magna Carta, the Provisions of Oxford and Westminster, the Statute of Marlborough, the Petition of Right, Habeas Corpus Act, Declaration of Rights, Bill of Rights, Toleration Act, Triennial Act, Statute of Anne, "Hogarth's Act", Municipal Reform Act, Suffrage, and all of Common Law. Details are found in these sections:

Brits Who Love Freedom »
The British men and women in the Judeo-Christian tradition who risk their lives for freedom, including St. Alban, King Alfred, St. Anselm, Simon de Montfort, John Lilburne, Pilgrims, John and Mary Rogers, George Washington, John Adams, Chartists, William Wilberforce, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Winston Churchill
Freedom Network, Part 1 »
British history describes achieving individual liberties and just laws
Freedom Network, Part 2 »
British history describes achieving democracy and representative government and defending Britain from attack
Defeating Threats to Freedom, #1, European Union
The Fellowship: Abolishing Slavery, Part One »
History of the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in Britain, Charles Middleton, James Ramsay, Granville Sharp, Lady Middleton
The Fellowship: Abolishing Slavery, Part Two »
History of the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in Britain, Thomas Clarkson, the Quaker Friends, William Wilberforce, Olaudah Equiano, William Pitt
The Fellowship: Abolishing Slavery, Part Three »
Campaign buttons, petititons, boycotts – modern political tools are developed in the struggle to end the slave trade
The Fellowship: Abolishing Slavery, Part Four »
Christian beliefs that inspire the abolitionists; war and revolution delay; Pitt dies; strategies for success in the British Parliament
The Fellowship: Abolishing Slavery, Part 5 »
The Royal Navy launches the African Squadron to end the slave trade; fights at sea; death by yellow fever; treaties with African chiefs and European nations; Abraham Lincoln
The Fellowship: Abolishing Slavery, Part 6»
Rev. John Smith, Quamina, Elizabeth Heyrick, Sophia Sturge, George Stephen, William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, Samuel Sharpe, Charles, Lord Grey, Lord John Russell &
Henry Brougham

Your True Face, Finding yourself in 7th century Britain Aidan »
Margaret Thatcher on Christianity & Democracy »
The Servant King & Why He (or She) Matters Today »
Text of Magna Carta »
Text of Virginia Bill of Rights »
THREATS:
Defeating Threats to Freedom #2, Violent Islamists, Part One »
Defeating Threats to Freedom #2, Violent Islamists, Part Two »
Corpus Juris & What It Portends for You »
SOS Petititon & Flag Plate Stickers »

LIBERTY! THE TIMELINE »

Liberty! The Timeline, a chronological description of the struggle for freedom in British and American history, 1st Century BC - AD 21st Century

BRITISH HEROES & ADVENTURERS »

British heroes are well-travelled, daring, humourous, and helpful.

ARMED WITH AN UMBRELLA and holding the Arnhem Bridge against Nazi Germany in World War II Digby Tatham-Warter »

YOUR TRUE FACE A Christian confronts gang-warfare in 7th century Britain Aidan »
TWENDE TU riding and flying in Africa by an early aviation pioneer Beryl Markham »
NO WONDER THEY'RE GREAT IF THEIR WOMEN ARE LIKE THAT
British Women in World War I »
EXTREME JOURNEYS in the Antarctic feature British explorers
Robert Falcon Scott »
Ernest Shackleton »
Edward Wilson »
Cherry-Garrard »
Douglas Mawson »
THE KNIGHTS WHOSE PRAGMATISM AND CHRISTIAN IDEALISM HELPED TO ESTABLISH AND DEFEND MAGNA CARTA
The Knights »
ARMCHAIR EXPLORER, Elizabethan Richard Hakluyt »
STOP CRYING, a Brit at the World Trade Center on 9-11
Rick Rescorla »
GOING THROUGH HELL Winston Churchill, Part 1 »
Winston Churchill, Part 2 »
Winston Churchill, Part 3 »
Winston Churchill, Part 4 »
NEVER ALONE, bringing hope to the people of Russia, the Sudan and Armenia Baroness Cox »
THE HEROIC (NOT MODERN) POINT OF VIEW, Horatio Nelson »
ADVENTUROUS TRAVELLERS, Eric Newby, Susannah Thornton »
INTO THE SANDS OF EGYPT, Howard Carter »
SAINT OF SECOND CHANCES, Patrick »
YOUR TRUE FACE, Aidan »
ALFRED THE GREAT »
ANSELM & THE RED KING »
THE GIFTS OF ALBAN »
REMEMBRANCE DAY »
SAVING THE CHILDREN, Eglantyne Jebb »
GALLANT IN DEED, The soldiers of Afghanistan and Iraq »
SAVING LIVES, Pte JOHNSON BEHARRY »
DUNSTAN, The Devil is in the Details »

SCIENCE TIMELINE »

British scientists, inventors and innovators and their scientific inventions and innovations are described in the Timeline. Includes Roger Bacon, William of Ockham, the Mertonians, William Harvey, Robert Boyle, Royal Society of London, Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Edmond Halley, Adam Smith, Lord Kelvin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, James Clerk Maxwell, Alexander Graham Bell, Ernest Rutherford, Alexander Fleming, Frank Whittle, Discovery of DNA, Tim Berners-Lee

It Was A Miracle, the True Story of Penicillin's Discovery »

ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW »
On the trail of royal quarrels, southern voyages, and the storied Gardens

BRITISH LIFE »

The English Garden, Part 1 »
The history of the world's most romantic and popular garden
The English Garden, Part 2 »
Wonderful English garden designs and gardeners
Hidcote Manor Garden »
A beautiful and eccentric garden
David Austin's English Roses »
A British Christmas »
Sipping Whisky »
Ode to Scottish whisky
Taking Off in a British Sports Car »
A personal reminiscence
The Black Suit »
What it looks like and what it says
The Scouts »
Robert Baden-Powell, Zulus, the Scout Motto and Law
Protecting Animals »
The Unstoppable Richard Martin and the RSPCA
Gerald Durrell »
His family of animals

SPORTS »

Sports Wrap-up »
Brits invent cricket, rugby, football (soccer), golf, tennis, fly-fishing, & badminton.

Kelly Holmes, Running for Gold »

Sailing the Blue Sea »
The woman, the man, and the boy
Ellen MacArthur, Robin Knox-Johnson, Michael Perham

BRITISH ARTISTS, MUSICIANS & WRITERS »

BEATING PULSE OF ISAAC WATTS »
His hymns and his ideas
Robert Byron »
Travel writer and poet

COMEDY to LOVE »
Chaucer, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, and Monty Python are bawdy, satirical, uproariously funny, fantastically different, and unexpectedly sublime.

JOHN CONSTABLE »
Landcape painting by a man who would not give up

COWBOY SINGER »
English poetry is born when a cowboy in England by the name of Caedmon gets a call to sing.

JOHN DONNE »
Seductive poetry; 17th century

JULIAN OF NORWICH »

ELTON JOHN, SIX DARK & DAZZLING DECADES »

GOLDEN SEQUENCE »
The contemplative prayer linked to Magna Carta

GREEN THOUGHTS »
Andrew Marvell's life and poetry, includes text of "The Garden"

HOGARTH IN LOVE »
The 18th century painter and engraver made satire an art form and fought for copyright.

REDEMPTION »
Writer Ian McEwan on our fears today

SEEING MUSIC »
The luminous links between Georgian architecture, music, and breaking waves.

SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINES »
Intrepid, intelligent, freedom-loving: Rosalind in As You Like It; Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing; Cordelia in King Lear; Isabella in Measure for Measure; and Olivia in Twelfth Night.

VOICE IN A BILLION »
Bryn Terfel sings Welsh songs and opera to the world.

WITNESS FOR THE DEFENCE »
Writer George Orwell takes the stand.

ARCHITECT LAURIE BAKER, BUILDER & BLYTHE SPIRIT »

CATCHING UP TO ANNE FINCH »
17th - 18th century British poet

LOVE BADE ME EAT »
17th century poet George Herbert

ROBERT BYRON »
Poet of the earth

MARGERY KEMPE »
Visionery, Traveller, Mother, Writer

CHRISTOPHER WREN & ST PAUL'S »

SEEING ANGELS - WILLIAM BLAKE »

BRITS WORLDWIDE »

A place for Brits and Anglophiles to post profiles and stories. Plus, the powerful ideas that have changed the world.

A Few Ideas in Our Heads »
The 7 virtues or powers that make people successful.

WHAT'S IN A NAME »
Defining the terms Britain, United Kingdom, England, Scotland, Wales, the British Isles, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands

CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA »
Introduction to a fantastic country and people

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