British History Quotes

British History Quote of the day

Most of our people have never had it so good.

I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there.

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

The wisest fool in Christendom.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

Let valour end my life!

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.

Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.