Joe Pugh 🎗️

Historical researcher from Yorkshire- MLitt from Newcastle University- interests in 18th century British history, King William IV, and British Leyland!

[Joe Pugh 🎗️ @TheRealJoePugh]

@shitbritishpics Was it supposed to look like the Kennedy assassination?!

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

Your steam engine is British.
Your Industrial Revolution is British.
Your railway is British.
Your underground railway is British.
Your modern railway timetable is British.
Your suspension bridge is British.
Your iron bridge is British.
Your modern lighthouse is British.
Your marine chronometer is British.
Your global time standard is British.
Your time zone starts at Greenwich.
Your telephone is Scottish.
Your television is Scottish.
Your radar is British.
Your jet engine is British.
Your tank is British.
Your programmable computer is British.
Your World Wide Web is British.
Your fibre-optic communications were pioneered by a Briton.
Your modern telecommunications network was transformed by British inventors.
Your antibiotics are Scottish.
Your vaccination programme was pioneered by an Englishman.
Your modern nursing profession is British.
Your public sanitation system is British.
Your modern sewerage system is British.
Your clean drinking water infrastructure was pioneered by Victorian Britain.
Your weather forecast is British.
Your life boat service is British.
Your modern fire service was pioneered in Britain.
Your parliamentary democracy is British.
Your constitutional monarchy is British.
Your common law is British.
Your independent judiciary is British.
Your trial by jury is British.
Your presumption of innocence is British.
Your habeas corpus is British.
Your rule of law is British.
Your modern police force is British.
Your modern civil service is British.
Your modern banking system was shaped in Britain.
Your central banking model was shaped by the Bank of England.
Your stock exchange model was pioneered in London.
Your global insurance market was built at Lloyd's of London.
Your international maritime law was shaped by Britain.
Your global trade routes were mapped by Britain.
Your anti-slavery patrols were British.
Your modern university model was influenced by Oxford and Cambridge.
Your scientific societies were pioneered by Britain.
Your peer-reviewed science was advanced by British institutions.
Your laws of motion are English.
Your theory of evolution is English.
Your economics is Scottish.
Your electromagnetism was transformed by a Scot.
Your geology was pioneered by Scots.
Your thermodynamics was advanced by Britons.
Your stainless steel is British.
Your carbon fibre is British.
Your steam turbine is British.
Your hovercraft is British.
Your ATM is British.
Your cash machine is Scottish.
Your postage stamp is British.
Your modern postal system is British.
Your football is English.
Your rugby is British.
Your golf is Scottish.
Your tennis was codified in Britain.
Your badminton was codified in Britain.
Your cricket is English.
Your worldwide language is English.
Your newspapers were shaped by Britain.
Your global news agencies were pioneered by Britain.
Your public broadcasting model is British.
Your music charts are British.
Your modern popular music owes a great deal to Britain.
Your neighbour may be an immigrant.
But a fair chunk of the modern world is British.
Pull yourself together.

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

President Calvin Coolidge and First Lady Grace Coolidge were touring a farm separately.

Mrs. Coolidge noticed a rooster mating frequently and asked the farmer how many times a day it happened.

“Dozens of times" he replied.

Grace smiled and said, "Tell that to the President."

When Coolidge reached the same spot, the farmer passed on the message.

Coolidge thought for a moment and asked:
“Same hen every time?”

“No, Mr. President,” the farmer said. “A different hen each time.”

Coolidge nodded slowly and replied:

“Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge.”

[Daniel J. Devane 🇬🇧 @DanielJDevane]

Shocking lack of knowledge from a Privy Counsellor.

The Privy Council doesn’t “choose” the next King. The succession to the Crown is automatic. The Accession Council merely proclaims.

Secondly, “The King of England” doesn’t exist anymore. The Kingdoms united in 1707.

[Weird Bristol @WeirdBristol]

When the pirate Blackbeard appeared as a character in the Simpsons episode “Treehouse of Horror IV” he became the first Bristolian to be featured on the show.
1/2

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

I have attempted to piece together the narrative of the AI Nigel Farage - Question Time ads

Clearly it is riddled with continuity errors and there are scenes missing (most notably the arrival of Noel Edmonds), but here goes

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

old joke: four rabbis are arguing doctrine. its 3 against 1. the odd one out asks God for a sign that he’s correct. it snows. the 3 dismiss it. it thunders. the 3 dismiss it. finally a voice calls from heaven, “hes right”. so one of the rabbis says: “alright, now its 3 against 2”

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

Well done to the social media person at Rowhead Farm near Stirling in Scotland for what is possibly the greatest Facebook post of all time …

[Undine @HorribleSanity]

So here's an early 19th century children's book titled "Marmaduke Multiply's Merry Method of Making Minor Mathematicians," and it's about as insane as you'd think.

[Abhishek @MSDianAbhiii]

Declare this the photo of the year already.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

The day I was personally mugged off by a member of the royal family - A true story

On a hot summer’s day in 1995, in a lavish garden in Fife, my supervisor and I were standing in a big hole in the ground. The hole had been dug some days previously for a swimming pool that was to eventually fill the sizeable excavation where we were now standing.

The garden, and accompanying estate, were the property of Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee, who had commissioned the swimming pool.

As we toiled in the blaze of the midday sun installing electrical cables for lighting, we saw Earl Dundee walking around with someone who looked very familiar to me. The pair walked towards us and engaged us in conversation. The Earl’s companion, a much older gentleman, regaled us with a tale of an eccentric man who used to go swimming in Hyde Park every day, rain or shine. After he’d finished his tale I piped up.

‘I hope you don’t mind me asking, but you seem very familiar’, said I.

‘Oh?’ replied the man. He smiled and paused for a minute. ‘Do you have any money in your pocket?’

Thinking this was a very odd thing to ask, but aware of the peculiarities of the aristocracy (whom I thought this guy must have been a member of), I pulled out a 50p piece from my pocket.

‘You see that woman?’ he asked, pointing at the female face on the coin. ‘That’s my wife.’

[Sérgio Santos @ZAMENZA]

A tutora abriu a porta da varanda porque tinha certeza que seu gato laranja seria humilhado. Ele claramente decepcionado pela traição.

[Toddington @HXValley]

I want the most British veteran comments on the preamble to D-Day you have...no, that's too etc etc

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

HMS Implacable, originally built as the Duguay-Trouin for the French Navy in the early 19th century, is a historic sailing warship of significant importance in European maritime history. After serving in the British Royal Navy, it survived for over a century and was known at the time as the second-oldest surviving ship in the Royal Navy, after HMS Victory. However, on December 2, 1949, HMS Implacable was scuttled at sea, flying the French and British flags side by side as a tribute to its heritage. The decision was made after the British government deemed the ship's maintenance and restoration costs too high amid post-war austerity policies.

The sinking of HMS Implacable sparked a wave of protests from the public, historians, and maritime history enthusiasts, who considered the act a "crime against British maritime history." Many argued that the ship should be preserved as a museum or national monument due to its exceptional historical significance. The controversy sparked widespread debate about the preservation of maritime heritage and the government's responsibility to safeguard historical relics. The strong public reaction ultimately prompted the government to provide greater support for future historic ship preservation projects, making the HMS Implacable incident an important lesson in efforts to preserve historical heritage for future generations.

© Reddit

#drthehistories

[Joe Paul Kroll @JoePKroll]

The beginning of AJP Taylor’s ‘English History 1914–1945’ famously ‘goes hard’, as the internet puts it, but part of its brilliance is surely that it was written (or rather edited) to fit a single page.

[ratcatcher raine @mmollyraine]

@evadentz Then you’d get those Dilly Court books with women on the front and they’d be called The Wartime Piecrust Girls or A Thimble For Christmas