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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. 🙏🇬🇧

They call the English a mongrel people... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 The science says something better. 🧪👨‍🔬 In 2015 scientists in Oxford tested 2,039 people. Only people whose 4 grandparents were all born within 50 miles of each other. So the map they drew wasn't Britain today. It was Britain in 1885. Before anyone moved. 17 groups across these islands. 🗺️ Cornwall. Wales in pieces. The north. Scotland in pieces. Orkney. And the English were one. One people from Kent to Yorkshire. One group, where everywhere else on the map was many. So where did they come from? In 2022 they went to the graves. ⚱️ 278 people who died here 1,500 years ago. They read what was in them. 3 streams. The Britons who were already here before the Romans. The families who crossed the North Sea after the Romans left. Whole families. As many women as men. Not a wipe-out. They married in. And a third stream from across the Channel, over centuries. 3 streams. 1 river. 🌊 By the Middle Ages the mixing had settled. The map of 1885 still showed it, 900 years on. Same fields. Same church. Same names on the gravestones. That's not a mongrel. A mongrel is a mix nobody meant. This is a recipe. 3 ingredients. 1,000 years to set. 🏺 And here's the part that matters. A lineage isn't a wall. It's a line. People who kept the same place and the same ways, then handed them on. The Normans joined it. The Huguenots joined it. Anyone can. The price is keeping it. They teach you the English are a mixture. So is every people on earth. What they don't teach you is what it became. 1,500 years on the same ground. Not many can say that. That's why Proud Of Us is here. To teach the next generation who we really are. No sponsors. No ads. No agenda. Just people like you. If you can, stand with us. If you can't, send this to someone who's never been told. They said mongrel. That doesn't change a thousand years of lineage. It just means nobody told them. Let's teach our next Generation the truth.👇 👉proudofus.co.uk/support 👈 Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Britain is allowed to be proud of itself. 🇬🇧 The Italians are proud of Italy. The Jamaicans are proud of Jamaica. The Polish are proud of Poland. As they should be. And so should we. Proud of the miners. Whose pennies built the NHS, decades before Whitehall had the idea. The nurses who ran it. The shipbuilders of Belfast. The engineers who threw a bridge across the Forth. The men who wired the world from a Greenwich wharf. The mothers who kept this country standing when the men were gone. A small, wet island that gave the world its language, its laws and its football. 🇬🇧 That isn't against anyone. Pride isn't hate. It never was. It's just gratitude, said out loud. Somewhere along the way, you were told to be quiet about it. We're done being quiet. Because people who know their history stand a little taller. And once we know how this country was made great in the first place, together, we can do it again. Everything we make is free to learn from: proudofus.co.uk/teach If you can afford to, help us write the next chapter: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧