"If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us."

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To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion that it does no more than recycle patriotic pieties unsuited to a global marketplace, would be an act of appallingly self-inflicted collective memory loss.

— Simon Schama