Grace N.

[The Art of a Lady 🌸🍃 @ArtofaLadyX]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐲

A lady watches how a man treats people who have 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 to offer him.

She notices how he speaks to the waiter, the driver, the receptionist, the elderly man who is taking too long, the person who cannot do 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 for him.

She watches how he behaves when he is inconvenienced. Whether he keeps his word when keeping it is difficult. Whether he can disagree without becoming insulting. Whether he can apologise without turning the apology into an 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒.

A lady notices how he speaks 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 women when there are no women around. How he speaks about his friends when they have 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 the room. Whether he is generous with praise and careful with other people's weaknesses.

She notices what happens when he is angry, when he loses, when he is ignored, when somebody beneath him in status makes a mistake.

And she pays attention to how he behaves when he has nothing to 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒.

A lady does not judge a man only by how charmingly he treats her.

She watches how he 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑠 the world around him.

Because eventually, everyone becomes the person they are when there is 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛.

So pay attention.

[Julian Lennon @JulianLennon]

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[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 THEY TOLD YOU A STORY. 🇬🇧

Colonisers. Slavers. Oppressors. And you were supposed to feel ashamed.

Not for what you done... But for WHO YOU ARE. 🇬🇧

So we tested it. Britain wrote everything down, so we opened the books. 📖

Turns out fewer than 1 man in 10 could vote in the year Britain banned the slave trade. No woman could. Your ancestors could hang for stealing a sheep, get shipped across the world for petty theft, or go down a mine at 8 years old. In Manchester, the average age of death in a labouring family was 17.

They weren't running the slave trade. They were underneath it too.

Which is what makes what happened next worth knowing.

In 1772 an enslaved man named James Somerset walked free from an English court, because English law couldn't hold a slave.

In 1791, 300,000 families just stopped buying slave sugar. No march, no riot, just a decision made at 300,000 kitchen tables.

In 1792, 519 petitions carrying 390,000 names hit Parliament, most signed by people who couldn't vote themselves.

In 1807, Britain banned the trade.

Then the slave owners sent Britain a bill for the 800,000 people they still held. 💷 £20 million. About 40% of the entire government budget at the time.

The Treasury says it wasn't paid off until 2015. So if your family paid British tax before then, they helped buy 800,000 people their freedom.

From 1808 the Royal Navy spent 60 years hunting slave ships at sea: 1,600 stopped, 150,000 people freed, and 1,600 British sailors dead, mostly of disease, buried thousands of miles from home. ⚓

In 1816 they ended two centuries of Barbary corsairs enslaving Europeans.

In 1896 a war that lasted 38 minutes ended slavery in Zanzibar. 🇹🇿

Almost every country on Earth outlaws slavery today.

That fight was paid for largely at British expense, by British hands.🇬🇧

So why haven't you heard any of this?

Because within living memory, someone rewrote the story. You got taught the crime. Not the cure.

The powerful exploited the world. They exploited their own people first. It was those people who ended slavery. 🇬🇧

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History got rewritten once, in living memory, by no one who was ever named or held to account.

We are ordinary people doing what ordinary people have always done. Opening the books. Refusing to look away.

This is how we fight back. Fact by fact. Story by story. Name by name.

We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you in it.

If you can afford to support what we do: https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Empire Aesthetics @Empireaesth]

HMS Dreadnought passes HMS Victory in Portsmouth Harbour (1906)

[Grace N. @Grace_Nicholas_]

What an absolute thrill it was to watch Top Gun in IMAX! ✈️🔥
I was just a baby when it first came out, but I’ve probably watched it 20 times over the years — to the point where I practically know the script by heart. Seeing it on the big screen at last was pure joy. #TopGun

[Grace N. @Grace_Nicholas_]

@visitnorthyork Are they Japanese cherry trees?? 😍🌸

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

TOP GUN was released 40 years ago today. One of the definitive 1980s action films, and among the most popular of its star, Tom Cruise, the story behind the scenes will take your breath away…

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[ReNature🦋 @Natursee]

Ely Cathedral, England , UK 🇬🇧

[Grace N. @Grace_Nicholas_]

@oaksandlions I love your posts!! 👏🏻👏🏻

[Tom Cruise @TomCruise]

If you feel the need...Two films. One big screen. Back in theaters, May 13th, for one week only.

[Grace N. @Grace_Nicholas_]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Variety @Variety]

"Top Gun 3" is officially in the works at Paramount, with Tom Cruise set to return and Jerry Bruckheimer producing, as announced at #CinemaCon.

https://t.co/0sTeLBRkOB

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

A group of guys, an Englishman, two Scots, and a Welshman aren’t allowed to have a dog according to their landlord. They spot a neighbor walking a dog and decide to email, offering to walk it whenever needed. The neighbor responds… with a handwritten letter from the dog.

[Grace N. @Grace_Nicholas_]

@oaksandlions Ah ok! I am looking for something similar and really loved those! I love your posts! Thanks!

[RŌNIN @ronin21btc]

What an incredible English gentleman.

He stood up to shake hands at the age of 90.

[Denby Pottery @denbypottery]

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We are sad to share that we may be forced to close and a British institution could be lost.

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[Grace N. @Grace_Nicholas_]

@JamesThomp777 @Inevitablewest He lost the elections and the Spanish electoral system allows him to form a government through alliances, which he did with all the minority, regionalist, and left-wing parties. The majority of Spaniards did not vote for Sánchez. They are having to endure him anyway.