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— Leanda de Lisle"There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt."
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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.
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The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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