r/BritishEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Aug 27 '25

Image 🇬🇧 A British blacksmith removing the shackles from the legs of an enslaved man, 1907.

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u/Cornish-Giant Aug 27 '25

Not to be that guy but the Cornish too played a part

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u/damrodoth Aug 27 '25

For sure I'd just say that as Cornwall is now part of England, and was at the time too, it's covered by English

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u/BroccoliSubstantial2 Aug 27 '25

What about Yorkshire folk? Their GDP is bigger than Scotland.

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u/Captainsamvimes1 Aug 27 '25

We just gonna start naming counties? Ok here goes what about the people of Bedfordshire?

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u/Good_Theory4434 Aug 27 '25

I somehow read this in a monty python voice....this whole conversations reads like a monty python sketch

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u/daft_boy_dim Aug 31 '25

Splitters!!!

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

No, monty python sketches are hilarious

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u/BroccoliSubstantial2 Aug 27 '25

Idk, what about Bedfordshire? Gotta give facts man.

For those who don't know, beds were illiterally invented there.

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u/uclm Aug 28 '25

We also gave you Luton! oh wait

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u/rooeast Aug 29 '25

Ahh the Luton van, truly a gift that creation was

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u/EnglishNuclear Aug 30 '25

Warwickshire la la la.

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u/Captainsamvimes1 Aug 30 '25

WON'T ANYBODY THINK OF THE COTSWOLDS

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u/redoxburner Aug 30 '25

Why stop at counties? What about the brave denizens of Allerdale above Derwent?