When a slave was freed in Anglo-Saxon England, the legal ritual often involved placing a weapon, frequently a seax or a spear, into their hands.
By physically giving them the blade, they were being handed their status as a free person under the law.
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“They tell us we must be prepared to contemplate, in fact to welcome, the alteration and alienation of our towns and cities. They tell us there is no such thing as our own people and our country.”
- Enoch Powell
‘And yet England is not as Nineveh and Tyre, nor as Rome, nor as Spain. Herodotus relates how the Athenians, returning to their city after it had been sacked and burnt by Xerxes and the Persian army, were astonished to find, alive and flourishing in the midst of the blackened ruins, the sacred olive tree, the native symbol of their country. So we today at the heart of a vanished empire, amid the fragments of demolished glory, seem to find, like one of her own oak trees, standing and growing, the sap still rising from her ancient roots to meet the spring, England herself. Perhaps after all we know most of England who only England know.’
- Enoch Powell
This Canadian Red Ensign was flown by Rev. Isaac Barr over the Barr Colony, an “All-British” group who settled in the Canadian North-West in 1903. As of 1969 it was still in the possession of his son, William Hall Barr of Australia.
There's something about post-war Canada that I find so endearing and prosperous, a time from before it fell to Americanisation and still had the vision of a rugged nation taming the land.
"[T]hroughout the hot summer of 1932-32 the New Guard maintained its campaign of unrequited street violence... On 13 February 1932, seven hundred New Guardsmen drilled at Belmore. Several newspaper reporters who attempted to take photographs were assaulted... All of this was building up to a major confrontation. This took place on the night of 26 February 1932 in the form of the so-called 'Battle of Bankstown'. On that night the New Guard had organised activities at as many as ten venues up to forty miles apart across Sydney, from the south-west at Bankstown, to the inner-west, the East and the North. A parade was held at Lakemba. Meetings were conducted in Rose Bay, Double Bay, Woollahra and Bondi... It was all part of a 'general mobilisation'.
The focus, however, was at Thompson Park, at outer-suburban Bankstown. Anti-fascist memory records otherwise, but... about two hundred New Guardsmen... successfully disrupted a small meeting of United Front against Fascism... The Telegraph enthusiastically reported 'the smashing of a Communist meeting by a New Guard contingent.'... [T]he incident showed the supremacy of the New Guard..." — Andrew Moore (2005) Francis de Groot: Irish Fascist Australian Legend
"Europe is not to be saved by any single man. England has saved herself by her exertions, and will, as I trust, save Europe by her example." - William Pitt the Younger 🏴
“Let us tonight at this great meeting give the answer. Hold high the head of England; lift strong the voice of Empire. Let us to Europe and to the world proclaim that the heart of this great people is undaunted and invincible. This flag still challenges the winds of destiny. This flame still burns. This glory shall not die. The soul of Empire is alive, and England again dares to be great.”
- Oswald Mosley