Put your hand on your chest. Feel that? ❤️ For fourteen hundred years, doctors got it wrong. They followed an ancient Greek doctor called Galen. 📜 He taught that blood was made in the liver from your food. Then used up by the body, like fuel. Nobody checked. 🤷 Then came a boy from Folkestone. William Harvey. Born 1578. 🌊 He became a doctor at Barts. He did something nobody had bothered to do. He counted. 🧮 How much blood in one beat? He guessed low. Just a small spoonful. How many beats in half an hour? Over a thousand. ⏳ Even on his lowest guess, in a single day, the heart pumps out more blood than the whole body weighs. 🤯 No liver could make that much. It must be going round. And round. And round. 🔄 In 1628, he published it. The doctors laughed. People said he was crack-brained. His patients left him. 😔 He didn't back down. It took twenty years. But they came round. 💪 Every blood test. Every heart operation. Every transfusion. They all start with a man from Kent who counted. 🇬🇧 They teach you medicine came from the Greeks and the Romans. Not that it took a man from Kent to prove them wrong. 🏛️ A country that doesn't just accept what it's told. It checks. ✅ Feel it again. Four hundred years ago, a man from Kent worked out what it's doing. ❤️ proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

You've had a weekend every week of your life. 🇬🇧 Nobody told you where it came from. The lie-in. The Saturday game. The Sunday roast. ⚽ All of it began in the cotton towns of Lancashire. And it started with a whistle. 1840: A mill hand worked 6 days a week. 12 hours a day. Sunday was for church. Saturday was just another shift. So the workers took Monday off instead. They called it Saint Monday. 🍺 The owners called it idleness. They docked their wages for it. But a mill can't run without its hands. So the mills and the mill hands made a deal. Turn up on Monday. And on Saturday, the whistle goes at 2. 1850: Parliament made it the law. Every mill in Britain stops at 2 on a Saturday. Half a day. All their own. The other half day followed, trade by trade, over the next century. And what do you do with a free Saturday afternoon? You play football. The whistle went at 2. So kick-off was at 3. It still is. ⏰ 1879: A magazine printed a strange new word from Staffordshire: week-end. The world had no word for it. Because the world didn't have one. America was still working Saturdays in the 1920s. Lancashire had stopped at 2 for 70 years. Every weekend on earth started at a mill gate in the north of England. They teach you the mills. They never teach you that ordinary mill hands made Saturday happen. Nobody told you where it came from. It came from ordinary British people. That's what Proud Of Us is for. The mill hands made a deal and kept it. So do we. No sponsors. No ads. No agenda. Just people like you. Send this to someone who's off today. They gave you your Saturday. Give them a minute of it. 👇 proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Left and right isn't British. 🇬🇧 👑 It's a seating plan. And it isn't even ours. It's French. 🍟🇫🇷 The French built a new parliament. 🪑 The king's friends sat on the president's right... The king's enemies sat on his left. That's it. That's the whole idea. A way of splitting a room into two camps. We've been sitting in it ever since. Britain had been running a parliament for 500 years by then. 🏛️ Without it. Whigs and Tories. Liberals and Conservatives. Factions and interests. Arguments that went on for centuries. But not a line with 2 ends. And look what we did without one. 🤝 Slavery ended by Quakers and Tories and a Whig government, together. The weekend, a deal between the mill hands and the mill owners. The police, a Tory's idea. The whole country's now. The NHS, a Labour minister building on a wartime plan, a miners' society and a Liberal's report. Nobody's side. Everybody's. Then, about 100 years ago, we borrowed the French word. 📏 And started calling each other left and right. Here's the thing about a line with 2 ends. It tells you where everyone else is. And it lies. Ask the country what it wants and most of it says the same things. 🏡 A doctor when you're ill. A copper who'll come. A wage you can live on. A country your kids can be proud of. They teach you left and right. They never teach you it's a borrowed seating plan, or that this country did its best work without one. That's what Proud Of Us is for. No left. No right. Just us. No sponsors. No ads. No party. Just people who'd rather build than argue. We agree on more than we're told. It's time we sat at the same table and worked together. 👇 proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧