🇬🇧 Britain removed an African king from power. 🇬🇧🫡 Because another African king asked them to. King Kosoko of Lagos. He sold slaves. Thousands of them. Business was good. He refused to stop. Prince Akitoye. Kosoko's rival. Rightful heir. He wanted the slave trade ended. He

A freed slave, turned Anglican bishop told Britain to invade Africa. 🇬🇧 Samuel Crowther. Kidnapped at twelve. Thrown onto a slave ship. Bound for the Americas. A British warship intercepted them. He was pulled from that ship. Given water. Given hope. He learned to read.

They call it the American System. 🇺🇸❌🇬🇧✅ Mass production. Interchangeable parts. It was invented by a 12-year-old British boy filling gunpowder cartridges. He asked for a raise. Got refused. Walked out. Built the first production line in history. 100 years before Ford.

They don’t teach you about Frank Whittle in school 🇬🇧 A working-class boy from Coventry. Too short for the RAF. Applied under a false name and got in. Invented the jet engine at 21. Britain ignored him. His patent lapsed because he couldn’t afford £5. Germany picked it up and

Britain sent a captain to rescue two people. He freed 841 🇬🇧 1840. Eight Spanish slave factories lined a river in West Africa. 15,000 people a year shipped across the Atlantic. Captain Joseph Denman arrived with three warships. Burned every factory to the ground. Freed

A dirty petri dish in a London hospital has saved more lives than every British king and queen combined 🇬🇧 A Scottish doctor left his lab messy. Came back to find mould killing bacteria. He published his findings. Nobody cared. For ten years, nothing happened. The first

🇬🇧 Britain’s worst joke… saved thousands of lives. The Black Joke. 🇬🇧 It’s not what you think. The Henriqueta. 3,000 souls in chains across the Atlantic. 🇬🇧Britain captured her. Renamed her. Armed her. Sent her back. HMS Black Joke. One to Two cannons. Forty-seven men.

It took £11 billion, 27 kilometres of tunnel and 10,000 scientists to prove one quiet British man right 🇬🇧 In 1964, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Peter Higgs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 wrote a two-page paper predicting a particle that explains why anything in the universe has mass. Without it - no stars, no planets, no us. It

Einstein kept one photograph on his wall 🇬🇧 It wasn't Newton. It wasn't Galileo. It was a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 physicist called James Clerk Maxwell. 🇬🇧 He took electricity, magnetism, and light. Proved they were all the same thing. With four equations. Without him: no radio, no TV,

The MOST IMPORTANT piece of ground in HUMAN HISTORY is a park by the Thames. 🇬🇧 Before what happened here…. Any king, anywhere, could do whatever he wanted. Take your land. Take your family. Kill you. No trial. No charge. No limit. No law on earth could touch him. Then in

Britain had the largest network of secret societies in the world 🇬🇧 Millions of members. Secret passwords. Secret handshakes. Initiation rituals. 🤫 They weren’t plotting anything. They were looking after each other. 🤝 A few pennies a week. Sick? They paid your wages.

🇬🇧 One letter. One newspaper. One month. 🇬🇧 In 1870, a British war hero wrote a single letter to The Times. Colonel Loyd-Lindsay. Victoria Cross holder. Crimean War veteran. He’d seen what happened when wounded soldiers had no one coming for them. So he wrote one letter.

A ⚜️French-Born⚜️ man CAPTURED the KING OF ENGLAND 👑🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⛓️ He held the king prisoner. Ruled in his name. But the lords refused to back him. He needed support. So he did something no ruler in history had ever done. He invited ordinary people into Parliament. Merchants.

One passenger. Two dead birds. Some Devonshire cream. 🇬🇧 That was the cargo on the world’s first scheduled international flight. August 25th, 1919. A grass field in Hounslow. A former RAF pilot called Bill Lawford climbed into an open cockpit and flew to Paris. No radar. No