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'Applying for the Future'

Overarching statement: Britain has made the most disproportionate contribution to civilisation of anywhere on Earth, whilst representing less than 0.2% of the world’s land mass and having under 1% of its people at any given time; Britain launched the modern world (science, industry, Age of Reason, farming gains, globalisation, freedom & democracy and health & humanitarianism) – and has made many other pioneering contributions (railway, modern bicycle, TV, computer, jet engine, antibiotics, World Wide Web, English language); the British are The Influential Islanders – and Britain is ‘applying for the future’

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Britain in Brief

Name: Britain
The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, the UK

Age: 8,000 years an island
Everyone else is ‘overseas’ – since the ice melted that covered most of Britain during the Ice Age; sea levels rose, cutting off the Continent

Capital city: London
One of the world’s oldest capitals; the Greenwich Meridian is 0° longitude; this is the central line of reference for measuring time anywhere on Earth and, along with the equator, location

Family members: England, Scotland & Wales
are parts of the island known as Great Britain (so named to contrast with ‘Lesser Britain’, on the opposite shore to the south, now known as Brittany); Northern Ireland is another part of the island group known as the British Isles, which is made up of more than 1,000 islands

DALEKS IN THE EU SAID

"STAY! PAY! OBEY!"

WE WON'T BE SLAVES TO THE DALEKS

WE VOTED LEAVE

RESISTANCE WASN'T FUTILE

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All views are those of The National CV Group of British Historian

Britain has given the world:
Megalithic Culture: 3800-1500 BC; started

before Sumer & Ancient Egypt
Tin to harden copper for tools & weapons in the
Bronze Age (2500-750 BC)
Druidism (BC) & Christianisation of the

Roman Empire by Helen of Colchester & her son
Constantine the Great (AD 300s); later
Christian sects (quakers, puritans)
Wool: 700s-1500s; the Middle Ages
Writing standards: Alcuin of York 789
Common Law 880s, trial by jury 1166,

rule of law 1215, habeas corpus 1305; free speech Constitutional monarchy &

parliamentary democracy 1600s; liberty
Modern science: Royal Society 1660, Isaac Newton
Age of Reason: c1680 to early 1800s
Coal & manufactured goods after the

Industrial Revolution started in Britain c1750;

Second Agricultural Revolution; Maritime might
Heroes: Arthur of Britons, Richard the Lionheart,
Henry V, Marlborough, Nelson, Wellington,
Churchill; fighting bullies with Allies
Inventions: pencil, steam & jet engines, postage
stamp, lightbulb, macintosh, photo –/+, tin
can, organised sport, weekend, modern novel
Ideas: AD/BC, no torture, anti-slavery, liberal
economics; names (Easter, USA, Big Bang);
medicine (blood circulation, scurvy, vaccines,
anaesthetics, asepsis, sanitation, nursing,
antibiotics); science (empiricism, gravity,
optics, atoms, electromagnetism, evolution,
DNA); maths (=, x, π); Greenwich Meridian
Globalisation: Britain linked up the world
late 1800s when she was the first global
superpower (with history’s most extensive
Empire, now Commonwealth) & helped the
second link-up after 1990s (packet switching,
WWW, Fintech, Healthtech, AI)
Legends: Giants; St George & Dragon; King
Arthur, Merlin & Knights; Lady Godiva;

Robin Hood
Culture: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Austen,
Dickens, George Eliot, Brontes, Romantic
Poets, Burns, Dylan Thomas, Tolkien,
Constable, Turner, Elgar, films/TV, stage, pop
music
English as the first-ever world language

Helen

Mosquito

ARM Microchip

Mclaren Supercar

Bladud - Statue at Roman Baths - Bath

Saint Helen

William & Catherine

St Paul at Ephesus

De Wavrin

Geoffrey of Monmouth

Joseph of Arimathea Among the Rocks of Albion

Albyne

Early Cyclists

The Globe Theatre

Fibre Optics

Telephone

Postage Stamp

The National CV of Britain

'Applying for the Future'– in particular, an Independent Future!

A Repository of British History

We have prepared a profile of Britain - for fun, illumination and inspiration - under the rubric ‘The National CV of Britain'. This document celebrates Britain’s record of pioneering achievements across any number of fields of human endeavour over many centuries. Supporting the claims of The National CV is a validating database called 'The National CVpedia of Britain'. Below the CVpedia is a stratum of specialist essays called ‘More Articles’, completing a Structure of Knowledge.

Britain is history’s most famous island and the British are described by The National CV Group as the ‘Influential Islanders’. The history of the UK is here presented in the form of a Curriculum Vitae, an upbeat personal history in reverse chronological order, with the most recent headline at the top. A CV is a forward-looking history, usually prepared in the context of getting a job. Since countries can’t get jobs, The National CV Group has Britain ‘Applying for the Future’.

This website provides a jolly, yet rigorous, historical analysis of Britain, ‘this sceptred isle, this green and pleasant land of hope and glory’. The National CV Group are inviting their fellow Britons to enjoy their remarkable history and relish past success, while redoubling their efforts in the present – using The National CV to ‘apply for the future’.

One day every nation on Earth will have a CV of its own.

We recommend this website which complements our own: www.britsattheirbest.com

Theme tune specially composed by Steve Sharples,

whose music credits include the film Moulin Rogue

Website inititation and original artwork by

Special FX, to whom special thanks

The National CV Group espouses the cause of Brexit, in the context of Britain's EU REMAIN/LEAVE Referendum of June 2016, as representing the nobility of self-rule. Our thinking can be ascertained here. We continue to rejoice in the pioneering vote to LEAVE.