Let's look at the nineteenth century. So most slave-owning societies of the era were able to abolish slavery without people dying at the mass scale that we'll discuss. So Britain freed eight hundred thousand slaves in 1833- ... By buying their freedom. Russia freed twenty-three million serfs in 1861 witha decree, so legally. Brazil, which imported more than ten times as many enslaved Africans as the United States, abolished slavery in 1888 through basic ordinary legislation.
But America is coming at it from a different perspective. Britain 's coming at it from a different perspective.You know? Britain 's empire is all about, you know, it's shipping.
It's a seaborne empire. Britain is still fighting in the back end of 1940, having won the Battle of Britain .
It's a seaborne empire. Britain 's traumatized by it, but not to the same degree that France is.
I'm only 13 years old. Britain enslaved and colonized the Bahamas.
1991 until 2013 uh and has held a number of professorships at universities in Britain and the United states in Israel and is the author of over 30 books uhwhich uh is is incredibly prolific but also a huge contribution to uh the
words, namely we the people. Now you know and I know Tim that nobody in Britain ever uses the words we the people because it's not we the people.We are her majesty's loyal subject. I mean this is not a covenant thing at
the UK is a cliche that I'm gonna call the mad mixed race you right? It's something we don't talk about much in Britain , where there are people off young men of mixed heritage, you're actually more likely to work in single parent homes than truly black Children, just like thisprison do more poorly in school than Children of West African heritage. This has not led to a stigma off mixed race people as a group because they are police.
being left behind not because they're poor, not because of a classism that predates the black presence in Britain by 1000 years, or at least, the wind rushed black presence in Britain by 1000 years. But the evidence that black, white poor whites of being left behind is not the Chazz um, between poor whites and wealthy white people. It'sthe much smaller gap between poor whites on working class.
Black folks were doing that little bit better in school now, but when you look at who working class black folk in Britain are particularly West Africans, were essentially comparing the Children of university educated West African civil servants who happened to have ended up inthe hood because of discrimination, even though they've got degrees in engineering or accountancy or whatever is from back in Ghana and Nigeria. Toe
And what she did is she basically, by measuring the cranial capacity, filling skulls up with sand, and emptying them out, and weighing the sand, and using calculations Britain , the eugenics movement was largely a progressive idea, not so much in America.
I was chased around the UN by CNN film crews and scores of diplomats. Britain is, of course, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and, thus, of considerable importance-- not as important as one or two others, but very important.And we drafted all other resolutions on Iraq during my time there.
practice that has effectively been stopped in time ancient woodlands in Britain are officially designated if they've been permanently wooded from1600 ad in England and Wales and 1750 in Scotland that's not because
Because in China, the difference, especially in Britain is so typical. Britain had 300 years of Industrial Revolution.The Dickens novel, Dickensian time, wrote about the whole Industrial Revolution from Victorian Period.
They first struggled against it. Britain was very bitter that it wasn't the forerunner.
They first struggled against it. Britain has a military.
Because actually, what we're talking about, I said that the managerial revolution is apolitical. Britain , Europe, the West, takes of this to defend democracy, but also, actually , the threat.
Meaning, over time, the US will become more powerful. Britain 's power will decline, And we'll be able to take Cuba.And in fact, that's what happened.
This is a family of Civil Engineers who've built most if not all of the lighthouses that to this day stand around the northern tier of Great Britain . His great grandfather, no his grandfather, sorry, also Robert, designed and built the Bell Rock Lighthouse,which is off to the east of Edinburgh to this day.
It's sometimes down to 8 or 9 or 10 to 1. Britain was 29 to 1 for the 2010 election compared to us in 2012.
Because of that, the federal deficit's projected to be around 3% next year-- even with a margin of error in the projection, say 4%. Britain has its own currency, like us, and has been cutting, been doing austerity.Having done that, it's now looking at 7%, totally growth, and a possible triple-dip recession.
Britain didn't say to me, "Because you're not a Muslim, you can't be a citizen." Britain said, "You're a British citizen." In this country, we have a Muslim in the Cabinet, serving in the Cabinet.
Britain in the OC. Right?
Britain there's a TV film made in England and it was just on television
Britain Has Talent yes what would you uh what's your advice to her oh they well I
Britain in 1960s called "Till Death Do Us Part."
Britain the second one was equally significant
Britain could have survived more than 6 months eight months
But obviously, every competent nation has a different approach to war because of the nation they are, the size they are, their geographical location. So Britain , for example, is an island nation. Its priority is the Royal Navy, which is why the Royal Navy is known as the senior service.
It's a seaborne empire. And Britain hasn't come out of the fight.
So Britain was facing a colossal trade deficit.
And Britain wasn't prepared because Chamberlain wanted peace.
In Britain , the barristers still wear their powdered wigs.
in Britain , for antisemitism to become a talking point, a set talking point on "News Night" and stuff and so that people in wherever-- they talk about Workington man.
the former economic adviser of the World Bank and uh Sir Ronald Cohen, um Britain 's first venture capitalist. And what they're saying is our current situation of capitalism is not going to work. And these are capitalists. They
In Britain he's name, but if anyone happens to be a spy buff and happens to have heard about him, the one thing people know about Richard Sorge
And Britain 's contribution went up from 5% to 25%.
to Britain and Europe to make some money for themselves-- for growing cotton.
But Britain achieved gender parity in literacy by the turn of the 20th century.
and Britain , and she almost managed to wipe the Ninth Legion off the face of the earth, as well.
Great Britain outspent Australia by 37%, but beat them on the medal table by 131%.
Does Britain still need to grow?
and Britain combined. That's a lot of people.
And Britain , of course, at this time is a mercantilist empire.
why uh and it's it's yours to explore and and wonder there are loads of other Mounds in Britain Britain is full of lumps and bumps this is a Mot uh in Oxford it's um a Norman mot so they were raised by the Normans after the 1066 Conquest as a
recruited Britain was able to you know fight on the battlefield it was so
In Britain , for example, the number of people who ticked the Christian box in the 2001 census was, I think, 73%.
In Britain , we say Joseph Swan deserves the credit for the light bulb, not Thomas Edison.
Little Britain were wandering around doing a weird show called "Mash and Peas." Simon Peg was doing an odd show with Edgar Wright.
In Britain , you take home about, I think, two and a half or three times the amount of money you get from an average bank robbery in the States,